Financial Accountant

Nottingham (Hybrid – 3 days at site)

£45-55k + benefits

High Growth Medium Sized Business

Eaton Syalon is exclusively partnering with a high growth acquisitive Nottingham based business to recruit an experienced Financial Accountant to join its finance team in a key role, supporting the delivery of accurate financial reporting, strong financial controls and continuous improvement across the function. This is a newly created role within the organisation.

Working closely with the Financial Controller & CFO, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to a wide range of financial accounting activities, from statutory reporting and group consolidations to process improvements and business projects. If you're someone who enjoys combining technical accounting expertise with a collaborative approach and is looking to make a positive impact within a supportive finance team, we'd love to hear from you.

The Opportunity

As Financial Accountant, you'll play a key role in ensuring the organisation maintains a robust financial control environment while delivering accurate statutory reporting, group consolidations and tax compliance.

This is a varied role with the opportunity to lead projects, influence finance transformation initiatives and support best practice across the finance function.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Financial Control & Governance

• Maintaining and enhancing a robust financial control environment.
• Safeguarding company assets and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations.
• Leading month-end and year-end financial processes.
• Developing and monitoring internal controls, policies and procedures.
• Acting as a key contact for external auditors and tax advisers.
• Ensuring statutory, regulatory and audit requirements are met.

Financial Accounting

You'll confidently take ownership of:

• End-to-end balance sheet management.
• Group consolidation processes.
• Preparation of financial accounts.
• Audit preparation.
• Complex financial reporting.
• Statutory accounts.
• Tax compliance.
• IFRS and FRS 102 reporting requirements.

Technical Accounting

You'll bring strong technical expertise, including:

• A thorough understanding of current accounting and tax legislation.
• Experience applying IFRS and FRS 102 standards.
• Strong knowledge of accounting within Group structures.
• Understanding of both direct and indirect taxation.

Mentoring & Team Development

Working closely with the Financial Controller, you'll help:

• Support, mentor and develop colleagues within the finance team.
• Encourage collaboration across the business.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.

Financial Reporting & Business Insight

You'll produce meaningful financial information that supports business performance, including:

• Monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• High-quality financial reporting.
• Actionable commercial insights.
• Continuous improvement of reporting processes and financial data integrity.

Continuous Improvement

You'll help drive positive change by:

• Streamlining finance processes.
• Automating manual tasks where possible.
• Improving reporting efficiency.
• Supporting finance transformation initiatives.
• Embedding best-practice financial processes across the organisation.
• Working with stakeholders to improve financial understanding across the business.

Project Work

You'll also lead or support a variety of finance and business projects, including:

• Systems implementations and upgrades.
• Process redesign.
• Finance transformation initiatives.
• Other ad hoc projects as required by the Finance Director.

About You

You'll be a fully qualified accountant or a finalist studying towards your qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with proven experience in a Financial Accountant or similar role.

You'll also bring:

• Strong financial accounting experience.
• Excellent understanding of financial governance and controls.
• Experience producing statutory financial accounts.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and FRS 102.
• Experience with Group consolidations.
• A solid understanding of direct and indirect taxation.
• A track record of driving continuous improvement.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

We're looking for someone who is:

• A collaborative team player.
• Detail-focused with exceptional accuracy.
• Commercially aware with strong statutory accounting knowledge.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Proactive, solution-focused and confident challenging existing ways of working.
• Passionate about improving processes and adding value.

Why Apply

This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative finance team in a role that offers genuine variety, technical challenge and the chance to make a meaningful contribution. You'll gain exposure to financial reporting, governance, transformation projects and business improvement initiatives while continuing to develop your career in a supportive environment.

If you're looking for your next opportunity and would like to be part of a finance team where your knowledge and ideas are valued, we'd love to hear from you.