Senior Financial Accountant

This role presents an opportunity to work in a dynamic finance environment where you will be responsible for designing, implementing and optimizing financial processes and systems to ensure accuracy and efficiency.

The Financial Accountant works closely with stakeholders across the Metal businesses to drive optimization on processes and implement robust controls to capture accurate business and financial information. The role involves working with the Information Management department to employ technology to automate activities and evaluates its effectiveness.

The Financial Accountant supports the Team Lead in delivering the full spectrum of financial closing and reporting activities under the Record to Report (RTR) workstream in accordance with Group Policies and relevant Accounting Standards and ensuring controls are operating effectively.

This may involve working closely with Finance Services Team to identify any daily operational activities in the trading system that may impact month-end closing activities in the accounting and consolidation systems, assess the reporting impact and intervening where necessary.

The Financial Accountant drives efficient and effective Finance operations by understanding the inter-linkages between Invoice to Pay (ITP), Invoice to Cash (ITC) and Record To Report (RTR) workstreams, identifies and resolves any anomalies and ensures all transactions are appropriately recorded in an effective manner within agreed timelines.

The role works within the framework of our financial controls and accounting policies, and engages closely with Finance Operations – Services, Risk, Group Shared Services and other stakeholders to formulate, implement and perform robust controls and ensure documentation of key Finance processes.

The Financial Accountant designs and optimizes process to communicate transaction information across to various stakeholders, ensuring adherence to workflow controls and eliminating manual intervention.

The role plays a key role in ensuring data integrity and making information available for on-demand to support commercial decisions and new business initiatives.

The Financial Accountant works closely with Business Partnering and other stakeholders to design and implement the technical accounting logic to align data streams with business activities from financial and performance reporting perspectives while managing the systems and processes to capture and deliver them as efficiently and accurately as possible.

The role is responsible for completion of reporting monthly results in an accurate, compliant and timely manner which includes coordination and collection of information from all relevant sources in delivering Monthly Financial Statements, Board papers and other regular information as required by the Marketing Business, Production Business Units or Group.

You will have the opportunity to work in a dynamic finance environment where you will be able to develop your skills and expertise in financial accounting and reporting.

The role offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Excellent academic credentials in Accountancy and other business-related degree.
• Solid business and financial acumen through business training such as CFA, or similar.
• Familiar with process improvement methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma.
• Excellent Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint skills.

• Strong knowledge of Finance Operations ITP/ITC/RTR process flow and internal controls.
• Strong understanding of how IT solutions can enable business processes, and able to communicate business requirements clearly to IT.
• Prior SME experience in managing improvement projects independently.
• Working knowledge of Accounting, Consolidation and CTRM systems such as SAP S4/Hana, Blackline, Ariba, HFM and Aspect preferred.
• Experience within Metals commodities industry, with marketing, trading and logistics and trading knowledge is an advantage but not essential.

We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are.

We provide equality of opportunity to enable everyone to fulfil their potential.