Financial Accountant - 18 month contract

Sewell Wallis are recruiting for a Financial Accountant to join a Leeds based business on a contract for 18 months.

This is an excellent opportunity for a fully qualified Accountant, ideally ACA/ACCA/CIMA with strong reporting and statutory accounting skills.

Reporting into the Financial Controller, your key responsibilities will include:-

Preparing and delivering of UK statutory accounts
Balance sheet reconciliations
Taking ownership of the local financial control framework
Assisting in the preparation of month end closure, forecasts and budgets
Preparing UK corporation tax computations and tax control accounts
Producing VAT returns
Supporting with ad hoc accounting projects

Requirements

Qualified Accountant
Strong IT and reporting background
First class communication skills
Ability to influence senior management
Excellent attention to detail
Ability to work to tight deadlines

This is an immediate requirement so candidates must be available at short notice.

For further details please contact Emma Dugdale or Lucy Regan.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.

Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions