Financial Accountant

Location: East Midlands

Newly Qualified / Finalist (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Are you a newly qualified or finalist accountant looking for an opportunity to develop your career within a growing, ambitious and commercially focused business?

Eaton Syalon is partnering with a high-growth, private equity-backed international manufacturing group to recruit a Financial Accountant into its expanding finance team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business that has experienced significant growth and transformation through strategic acquisitions, investment and international expansion, with ambitious plans for the future.

The role offers far more than traditional financial accounting. You'll gain broad exposure across month-end reporting, financial controls, group reporting, cash management and operational finance, alongside opportunities to get involved in projects and ongoing improvements across the business.

The Opportunity

Working closely with the wider finance team and operational stakeholders, you'll play an important role in maintaining accurate financial records, delivering timely management information and ensuring strong financial controls across the business.

The position offers a varied mix of core financial accounting, reporting and commercially focused responsibilities, making it particularly attractive to someone looking to broaden their experience and take greater ownership as their career develops.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform regular bank reconciliations, ensuring accurate and timely cash book postings within Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365).
• Prepare and submit VAT returns and national statistics reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Assist with maintaining the integrity of the trial balance, ensuring supporting schedules are accurate, complete and regularly updated.
• Prepare and post monthly journals, including accruals, prepayments, fixed asset depreciation and other month-end adjustments.
• Maintain and develop financial control documentation, identifying opportunities to strengthen processes and improve reporting accuracy.
• Support the development of robust financial controls and accounting procedures across the finance function.

Month-End & Financial Reporting

• Support the monthly financial close process, ensuring reconciliations, journals and reporting schedules are completed accurately and within agreed deadlines.
• Take responsibility for preparing full monthly balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly financial reports and supporting analysis, including Other Debtors, Goods Received Not Invoiced (GRNI) and cost centre review packs.
• Support cost centre reviews, preparing financial analysis and participating in review meetings with relevant stakeholders.
• Produce daily operational and financial performance reports, including Hours vs Budget analysis.
• Support monthly and quarterly group reporting requirements, ensuring accurate and consistent financial information.
• Process and reconcile monthly intercompany recharges, ensuring transactions are correctly allocated and recorded across relevant group entities.
• Work closely with operational colleagues to investigate variances, improve reporting quality and support informed financial decision-making.
• Produce and issue sales invoices and credit notes, ensuring transactions are accurate and processed within agreed timescales.
• Maintain the sales ledger, ensuring customer accounts are accurately recorded and regularly reconciled.
• Support cash flow forecasting, monitoring expected customer receipts and supplier payments.
• Issue customer statements and proactively chase overdue debt, supporting effective working capital management.
• Prepare weekly debtor cash updates, highlighting outstanding balances, expected receipts and potential collection issues.
• Monitor customer advances, ensuring balances are correctly accounted for and reflected within financial reporting.

Additional Responsibilities & Projects

• Ensure intercompany balances are accurately recorded, reconciled and supported by appropriate documentation.
• Provide cover for payroll processing when required.
• Assist with year-end reporting, preparing supporting schedules and responding to external audit queries.
• Support the preparation of year-end statutory financial statements, ensuring accounting information is complete and accurate.
• Assist with preparing supporting documentation for Research & Development (R&D) tax claims.
• Support the preparation of financial business cases for new product development, including costing,…