Location
Victoria, Essex | United Kingdom
Job description
La Fosse is a total talent solutions business across technology, digital, and change. Our vision is to create a world where talent is recognised regardless of background and lived experience.
We partner with our customers to build solutions for their business and people challenges, leveraging our recruitment, academy, solutions, and executive search offerings. Our expert teams work at all levels from the classroom to the boardroom on a permanent, contract, interim, and executive search basis. We help add short-term capacity while building long-term capability, filling immediate skills gaps and, more importantly, solving future needs with outstanding, diverse talent.
Company culture is a huge focus for us, promoting an inclusive, caring environment that supports our employees in reaching their career goals. La Fosse is proud to be an employee-owned business; this enables our staff to have a voice in how La Fosse is run and provides more opportunities for them to play a pivotal role in our success. Most importantly, employee ownership allows us to maintain our culture, ethos, and values as we continue to scale our business together.
Requirements
Financial accounting
- Responsible for preparation of annual financial statements for all companies within the group along with third party providers
- Play an active role in institutionalising and enforcing annual financial close calendar including internal year-end finalisation and sign-off of financial statements for the group
- Assist with the preparation of the year-end audit file and audit requests
- Develop best practice accounting processes and procedures
- Lead the intercompany reconciliation and elimination process at month end and year end ensuring inter-company recharges are documented correctly
Technical accounting and financial controls
- Design and implement accounting policies in accordance with accounting standards (FRS 102)
- Develop corporation tax and PAYE/PSA policies for the business
- Enhancement and execution of financial controls with a best in class ambition for our controls environment
Purchase ledger
- Management of the purchase ledger
- Overseeing the accounts payable process including ensuring payments are made on time for suppliers
- Reviewing and authorising payments
- Ensure the operational finance processes support effective management accounts preparation at month-end
Projects
- Develop and document best practice policies and procedures across the finance team with a particular focus on the purchase ledger, financial statements and financial reporting processes
- Assist with the implementation of a purchase order system
- Assist with the automation on the Group’s accounts payable software
- A range of ad hoc projects, e.g. accounting for acquisitions / disposals, system enhancements etc
Who are you?
- Qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA/CA) from a top 20 firm
- Excellent technical skills are essential (FRS 102)
- Ability to ‘think outside the box’ and to assimilate data into meaningful financial information
- You will enjoy improving controls and creating process efficiencies
- Ability to deliver accurate, high quality work and report to deadlines and to required standards
- Proactive and dynamic, keen to take the initiative and to anticipate and respond to the needs of the business rather than awaiting direction
- You will be curious, robust, and intuitive, driving improved financial performance within a business
What are the Standards & Expectations we live by?
- We support each other to be as successful as we can
- Treat others as you would like to be treated
- We put our teams before ourselves
- We think and act on what is best for the overall business
- The minimum performance standard we aim for is top 5% of industry
Benefits
- Award winning training and development throughout every stage of your career
- Employee Owned Business
- Hybrid flexible working model
- Clear progression path
- Gymbox membership
- Annual company Ski trip
- Quarterly business incentives and monthly team incentives
- Weekly office massages
- 24hr healthcare support hotline
- Cycle2work
- Discounted Bupa dental & medical cover
- Hypnotherapy
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and allow you to show your best self, let us know.
We understand that some people need extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and may also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview.
We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent.
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