Financial Accountant
To engage regularly with all commercial aspects of the business, providing accurate financial information to the Board of Directors in a timely manner.
Please note, this job description is not exhaustive as other duties may be required to fulfil the requirements of the role.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
Engage regularly with all commercial aspects of the business and provide comprehensive, proactive, and value-added finance support and guidance to other Functions within the business.
Support the preparation of monthly/annual (consolidated) management accounts for all entities, including those in the UK, USA, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, and Europe.
Business performance reporting, including costing analysis.
Assist in compilation of budgets and forecasts: analyse and review expenditure and cashflows.
Monitor and review accounting and related system reports for accuracy and completeness.
Ensure the group adheres to current accounting technical standards, provision of technical accounting opinions and hands-on approach in resolving accounting queries.
Ensure on-time delivery of finance deliverables
Support to the statutory audit, preparation, and submission of all audit deliverables on time and interaction with external auditors
Prepare and submit regulatory returns, such as grant claims and VAT.
Support and guidance to the Finance transactional teams.
Proactively identifying and implementing business and finance improvements and ensuring adherence to effective internal controls.
What you will need
Required criteria
- Qualification in accounting CIMA/ACA/ACCA
- Highly proficient MS Office experience, especially excel
- Practical technical knowledge of financial reporting standards
Desired criteria
- Big 4 experience
Professional skills you’ll need for this job opportunity
Financial Reporting
Managing Budgets
Business Awareness
CDE Group
WE ARE CDE. ENGINEERED FOR YOU We empower our customers to transform waste into valuable resources through innovative co-creation, laying the foundations for the circular economy. We help our customers maximise their natural resources in the most sustainable way possible – with greater efficiency and less waste than ever before. Our unparalleled speed and scale are down to our proximity to our customers and our deep understanding of their challenges. Our track record of proven solutions consistently meets our customers’ needs precisely, operating in challenging environments from the Arctic to the Equator. Wet processing is our sole focus –our experience and expertise is unmatched in this field. Every day, in everything we do, we strive to do it right. We want to be the best at what we do and deliver the maximum benefit for our customers. We pull together, as a team, in pursuit of this common cause. Our “Customer for Life” mentality fortifies each of our projects, with CDE engineers delivering continuous, limitless support.
We recognise that it is our people that have established CDE as market leader in developing solutions for the wet processing industry both within natural materials processing and waste recycling sectors. OUR PURPOSE IS TO CREATE OUR BEST WORLD, A TON AT A TIME. To do that, we must continue to build our global team by adding the most ambitious, driven and talented people. We will challenge you, elevate you and broaden your horizons. We will help you to be the best you can be both personally and professionally. We are renowned for our energy and can do attitude…. and at times seemingly delivering the impossible. We also know that all the will in the world won’t take us anywhere unless we work together. And we like to have fun together - life’s too short and we spend most of it at work. If we lose the power to laugh, we lose the power to think. We will continue to add the most dynamic, ambitious and talented individuals to the CDE team.