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Category

Other

Location

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Salary

Commensurate with Experience

Closing Date

2023-03-30 23:00:00

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Financial Accountant

  • Our people love the exciting and meaningful work they do, the cutting-edge resources and technology they have access to, the benefits we offer and the great community we’ve built. Want to join them?

    Main purpose of the role & responsibilities in the business:

    As a Financial Accountant (Senior Associate) at Kainos, you will be responsible for a wide variety of tasks including assisting the Finance Managers and Group Head of Finance in the management of all aspects of the Finance function including monthly and annual reporting cycles.

    This role would suit someone newly / recently qualified looking to kickstart their career.

    The key responsibilities for this role include:

    • Management Accounts Preparation:
      • Assists in the production of monthly management accounts.
      • Areas of responsibility will include nominal ledger reconciliations and intercompany reconciliations.
      • Analysing accounts and carrying out a review of the Trial Balances.
      • Focus on accuracy and completion within month end deadlines.
    • Journal Processing
      • Processing salary journals and ensuring salary costs are recharged to the correct project, where applicable.
      • Reallocation and batch uploads to be prepared and posted.
    • Business Partnering:
      • Providing P&L reports v Budget for assigned cost centres
      • Expenditure analysis report.
      • Trend analysis.
    • Statutory Accounts Preparation:
      • Assisting with the preparation of year and annual statutory accounts for Group and subsidiaries.
      • Liaising with audit team.
      • Ensuring preparation of accounts within set deadlines.
    • Treasury Management:
      • Payment processing.
      • Ability to assist/review bank reconciliations if required.
      • Assisting with Cash flow forecasting.
    • Project Work as required such as:
      • Assisting with preparation of R&D tax credit claims.
      • Assisting with Invest NI grant claims.
      • Preparing files and liaising with tax advisers on tax submissions.
    • Other:
      • Assisting any area of the Finance team as required (e.g. Accounts Payable, Credit Control, Cash).
      • Liaises with other Departments in Kainos (e.g. Business Units, People Support, Commercial).
      • Assist the Group Head of Finance as required

     

     Minimum (essential) requirements:

    • Ideally ACA/CIMA qualified (or equivalent)
    • Foreign currency exposure (e.g. Euro, Polish Zloty and US Dollar)
    • Good commercial awareness and understanding of project and business dynamics.
    • Ability to work efficiently and prioritise your workloads in a fast-paced environment, delivering a high level of accuracy and attention to detail within tight timeframes.
    • Ability to identify areas of improvement within processes and procedures and identify continuous improvements for your team.
    • Experience in mentoring and supporting others to deliver tasks and shared outcomes.
    • A self-starter who can work on their own initiatives with minimal supervision.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with both staff and external stakeholders
    • We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team skills, including taking direction from others, is crucial.
    • Ability to make sound decisions, under pressure, taking a balanced view of customer needs, Kainos requirements and any impact to others.
    • Sound knowledge of Workday, or a similar accounting package
    • Intermediate excel skills and good knowledge of other Microsoft Office applications.
    • Highly flexible, including willingness to work flexible hours at peak times

     

    Desirable:

    • Experience in mentoring and supporting others to deliver tasks and shared outcomes
    • A service industry background
    • Experience with Workday Financial system

     

     

    WHO YOU ARE:
    Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience. These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.

     

    We're an inclusive bunch at Kainos and we believe in equal opportunity. We welcome applications from all walks of life, including those with criminal records. Everyone who is offered a position here undergoes a basic background check , however no one is treated differently due to their background where it isn't relevant to the role. It's important to note - failure to reveal information which is relevant to the position sought, could result in us having to withdraw the conditional offer of employment.

     

    In short: Having a criminal record will not exclude you from a career with Kainos. This depends entirely on the nature and requirements of the position, together with the circumstances and background of offences. Kainos has a policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders (available on request).

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