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Financial Accountant required by a business based in Guildford, reporting to the Compliance and Accounting Services Manager, accountabilities of the role include:

• Manage the payroll interface process and reconciliation of related balance sheet accounts, liaising with HR as necessary.
• Raise payment requests for pension payments and other payroll deductions.
• Balance sheet account reconciliations (both preparation of some reconciliations and review of reconciliations prepared by others)
• Oversee PSA (PAYE Settlement Agreement) work performed by overseas shared service center.
• Prep of employee costs data for Group Reporting and Calculation of Long Term Incentive accruals (FRS20).
• Oversee shared service center management of the Concur expenses process, to include acting as the point of contact with Citi Card.
• Act as Finance Business Partner for the following corporate functions: HR, Legal, Finance. Providing advice and support as required including month end close and budgets/ latest estimates.
• Ensuring insurance invoices are paid and recharged to the various UK accounting units and that calculating budget recharge values.
• Sundry sales review and approval (in accordance with authority matrix limits)
• Preparation of the notes to the statutory accounts for employee costs and employee numbers.
• Assisting the Compliance and Accounting Services Manager in testing the performance of internal controls.
• Other ad hoc finance duties

The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant or part qualified or qualified by experience and have experience of payroll accounting.