Senior Accountant, Finance

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Accountant for our office in Sheffield, UK. The position is fulltime. You’ll join an awesome team to support our growing customer base.

 

About the Role

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all financial transactions are correctly processed and appropriately reflected in the GLs.
• Ensure monthly balance sheet reconciliations are performed and variances are investigated and reported in a timely manner.
• Adherence to month end procedures and timescales in order to meet Group reporting commitments.
• Work collaboratively with the overseas Shared Service Centre, liaising with them regarding the delivery of their Accounting and AP responsibilities. 
• Ensure compliance with internal financial reporting requirements.
• Take a leading role in local Statutory audits and accounts preparation, including co-ordination with external advisers.
• Provide accurate and sound management reporting to assist with key decision making.
• Support with the onboarding of newly-acquired entities in the region on an ad hoc basis.
• Proactively identify opportunities for procedural improvements to improve efficiency and quality, and work to implement these to position the business for growth.
• Other ad hoc projects as required by management. 

About you

• Recently qualified accountant with 4+ years of previous management accounts experience, including posting of journals and responsibility for balance sheet reconciliations
• An independent problem-solver, with excellent analytical skills including the ability to analyse large and complex data sets in order to summarise in a simple, effective way
• Good working knowledge of MS Excel
• A disciplined self starter with a ‘can do’ attitude who is able to work within a matrix organization, with a high level of commitment and the ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines; 
• Excellent interpersonal, teamworking and communication (written and oral) skills

• Previous experience in the compilation of statutory reporting and/or liaising with auditors

 

What’s in it for you?

Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding opportunity for career development and growth.  

 

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

 

“At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –TVN Reddy

 

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.

 

Disclaimer: This position is intended for direct applicants only. No agencies or third-party recruiters, please. Unsolicited agency submissions will not be considered.