Financial Accountant

A great benefits package is offered including an outstanding pension scheme (with an extremely generous employer contribution – on average 27% of your pay), 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and access to flexi-time

Hours: Full-time – 37 hours a week

Location: BGS headquarters in Nottingham or BGS offices in Edinburgh

About the role

Your responsibilities will include:

• Reporting to the Senior Financial Accountant, responsible for the financial management of all projects within specific science and support areas.
• Reconciliations of control accounts, review of revenue generation, income analysis, month end accruals, calculation of overhead/charge rates, reporting, as well as provision of advice and support in complex accounting issues to the BGS Finance and Project Support Teams.
• Using a Business Partnering approach, provide a financial service including advice, reporting/analysis, guidance and support to BGS Chief Scientists/Directors, Programme Managers and Project Managers.
• Provide financial input on an ad-hoc basis, e.g. corporate and external reports and audits, either based on projects within specific science areas, or with a wider remit.
• Undertake revenue calculations adhering to relevant financial standards (e.g. IFRS15).
• Ensure correct VAT applications and interpretations.

About you

Working flexibly within a small team, you must have excellent communication skills as part of the role will require you to be able to explain and present financial information in an understandable way to non-finance professionals.

Experience of using Microsoft Office applications including Excel to at least an intermediate level is an essential requirement of this post.

Some occasional travel to the other BGS and UKRI offices will be required in this role.

The specific essential and desirable skills criteria for this post will be assessed at Shortlist (S) stage, interview (I) stage, or both (S&I).

Essential

• Part qualified Accountant (CCAB or CIMA or equivalent) or significant relevant finance work experience (S)
• Experience of working within a complex financial environment, with an appreciation of project accounting (S)
• Experience of working at a high level with a computerised finance system including production of reports and exporting to Excel/Word and manipulating and analysing large and complex data sets (S&I)
• Very good working knowledge of basic financial accounting functions, such as accruals, prepayments, debits, credits etc as well as control accounts (S&I)
• Ability to prioritise work and meet tight timescales and adapt to regularly changing priorities including the ability to work unsupervised and under own initiative to problem solve and identify solutions (S&I)
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills with the ability to interpret and effectively present accurate and complex financial information, applying excellent attention to detail (S&I)
• Evidence of being able to apply professional knowledge to carry out and communicate detailed financial analyses and to develop trend and other management reporting (S&I)

The closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 7 October 2024. Interviews are expected to be held in mid-October 2024 in Nottingham.

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