Marks Sattin are partnering with a global firm of Chartered Accountants to help recruit for a Senior Business Adviser to join their incredibly successful Business Services and Outsourcing team.
You'll be someone who can work pro-actively, managing your own tasks, but you'll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with Senior Managers, Directors, and Partners in order to serve clients effectively. You'll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing delivery and providing additional services to clients.
This opportunity would see you working on a large variety of clients ranging from SMEs through to Mid-Market and Large Corporate businesses with the following responsibilities:

• Review and provide periodic financial information (e.g., Monthly management accounts) to help business owners make decisions.
• Deliver key insights to help clients understand their business performance and support them to achieve scalable growth.
• Lead the month-end process for a portfolio of clients - liaising with the businesses and internal teams as needed to ensure robust finance operations and hence timely and accurate management reporting.
• Assist with business advisory projects such as business reviews, workshops, forecasts and performance analysis
• Have awareness of consolidations and cash flow for year-end statutory accounts and to be able to prepare them if required.
• Have knowledge and ability to use various accounting software packages.
• Have knowledge of various accounting apps designed to simplify processes and deliver insight.
• Review the work of junior staff, and complete monthly reviews to ensure accurate financial information.
• Train and develop junior staff to help them progress
• Liaise with other departments and subject matter experts, such as VAT, tax and technical accounting teams
• Assist in research of complex technical areas and offer solutions.
• Understand the logic of a cashflow statement enabling issues to be identified and solutions proposed.
• Prepare engagement letters for manager and partner review.
• Conduct rigorous project management and financial management on all projects, completing projects within agreed timescales and raising issues with the manager or client, as appropriate, in a timely manner.
• Ensure that the firm's risk management and quality control procedures are adhered to at all times.

You'll be someone with:
Qualified Accountant ACA, CA or equivalent
Strong working knowledge of FRS102 and IFRS
Good understanding of business controls and month/year end controls
Working knowledge of the outsourced accounting model.
Evidence of ability to research technical accounting matters.
Working knowledge of risk management processes within an accounting firm
Working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Competent in the use of Caseware and other relevant accounts production software