Our client is seeking a highly skilled and knowledgeable Financial Controller with a focus on Audit & Tax. This role offers an exciting opportunity to serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors, ensuring open communication and timely responses. You will be instrumental in preparing year-end accounts, coordinating with internal resources, and ensuring compliance with UK GAAP.
What you'll do:
As a Financial Controller focusing on Audit & Tax, your role will be pivotal in maintaining open communication with external auditors while managing timelines effectively. Your responsibilities will extend from preparing year-end accounts to ensuring their compliance with UK GAAP. You will also play a key role in reporting audit findings and implementing internal controls related to audit and tax. Your ability to identify tax risks and implement best practices will be crucial in achieving 'low risk' status in HMRC's BRR+ system. Furthermore, your collaborative nature will enable you to build strong relationships with stakeholders both locally and overseas.
- Serve as primary point of contact for external auditors, facilitating open communication and timely response to queries.
- Collaborate with external auditors to plan the audit timeline, scope, and deliverables.
- Prepare year end accounts preparation and audit timetable collaborating with all stakeholders and manage delivery.
- Ensure year end closing activities and consolidations are completed accurately and on-time.
- Prepare, review, and finalise financial statements, ensuring they comply with UK GAAP.
- Report audit findings, the auditors' planning reports, and management responses to each audit committee meeting.
- Design, implement, monitor, and regularly review internal controls and processes relating to audit and tax.
- Identify and mitigate tax risks by implementing best practice and procedures.
- Conduct regular reviews of tax processes to ensure efficiency and accuracy.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders including overseas.
What you bring:
As our ideal candidate for the Financial Controller - Audit & Tax role, you are a qualified ACA/ACCA accountant with technical experience both in practice and industry. Your self-starting nature combined with your excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills make you an ideal fit for this role. You have a knack for technical problem-solving and pay great attention to detail. Your experience in a fast-paced, complex commercial environment has equipped you with a detailed understanding of accounting standards, auditing standards and processes, corporate taxation, VAT, and HMRC's risk management expectations. Above all, your continuous learning attitude towards technical updates as requirements change sets you apart.
- Qualified ACA/ACCA accountant with technical experience in practice and industry.
- Self-starter with excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
- Strong communication skills with an aptitude for technical problem-solving.
- Attention to detail.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, complex commercial environment.
- Detailed understanding of accounting standards, auditing standards and processes, corporate taxation, VAT.
- Knowledge of HMRC's risk management expectations.
- Continuous learning attitude towards technical updates as requirements change.
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