About This Role
This exciting opportunity is for a Lead Group Accountant to join the dynamic European accounting centre on a temporary, fixed-term basis. The role involves preparing month-end journals, reconciliations, financial statements, and other financial accounting activities within the central Group Financial Reporting team.
Responsibilities
- Prepare the journals for complex accounting areas specifically relating to IFRS-16 leases, equity-based payments, pension accounting, and hedging
- Review consolidation entries for intercompany trade balance sheet accounts (including accounts receivable, accounts payable, prepayments, and accruals)
- Work with the Financial Operations team to ensure appropriate elimination in SAP and Adaptive Insights
- Review balance sheet eliminations for all Group entities not on SAP, liaising with local accountants and the Group revenue team to ensure balances are aligned
- Prepare notes for the Group Consolidated Financial Statements
- Prepare the monthly cashflow to be included as part of the quarterly management reporting
- Manage the preparation and submission of various statistical returns for government agencies from around the world, ensuring fair distribution amongst the team and timely completion
- Provide support for posting all journals relating to treasury transactions and reconciling between the treasury management system (TMS) and SAP
- Review both external and intercompany borrowings and interest on a monthly basis
- Support the business in accounting for the acquisition and future USGAAP reporting requirements
- Support the control environment (specifically in respect to SoX), including GL reconciliations (utilising the Blackline application)
- Support Cash Operation, Global Credit Management, and Tax Teams
- Support all group and statutory audits
- Maintain and carry out a high-quality internal control environment over applicable accounting processes and the general ledger close
- Support Viasat Inc. in their quarterly SEC filing for certain disclosures
Requirements
- Accounting qualification (CPA, ACA, or equivalent)
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting or a related field
- Experience in a central finance accounting role
- Working knowledge of accounting principles, standards, IFRS, US GAAP
- Proactive individual with the ability and proven experience of effectively running various accounting and shared services projects to a high-quality solution simultaneously whilst adhering to deadlines, utilising best practice tools and techniques
- Strong people skills; impactful, confident, credible, and comfortable at engaging collaboratively in an intellectual and multinational environment at all levels
