Financial Accountant

About Us

Fideres delivers effective economic analysis and testimony turning data into courtroom advantage. As global litigation experts we help law firms secure new cases and offer unbiased conflict-free insights for complex and innovative disputes. Driven by rigorous analysis we empower justicefor allfrom case strategy to victory.

By dedicating ourselves solely to litigation-based economic analysis we can provide truly unbiased assessments and maintain our commitment to objectivity.

Our Competition litigation consulting team has provided expert opinions on major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple Amazon and Facebook) Big Pharma Big Finance and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile our original and innovative investigations into river sewage and Covid-19 have led to national press coverage.

Our Financial and Securities Litigation team has worked on many of the most significant global cases involving securities fraud market manipulation and financial cartels of the past decade contributing expert opinions and advising global law firms institutional investors and regulators.

We operate across the US UK and EU through four fully staffed offices with a team of around 70 professionals.

We are looking for a qualified Financial Accountant to join our finance teamon a six-month fixed term contract at an exciting point in our growth. Reporting to the CFO you will take ownership of the technical accounting that keeps a fast-moving international professional services business running with the year-end audit as your headline priority.

This is a hands-on broad role in a lean team. Alongside the day-to-day running of the accounts you will lead our audit preparation and play a central part in two significant projects: a smooth well-controlled external audit and the transition to a new ERP accounting system. You may also oversee a junior member of the finance team.

It is a genuine opportunity for a practice-trained accountant to step into industry broaden their remit and have real influence over how our finance function works as we scale.

Responsibilities will include:

• Audit preparation:leading preparation for the annual external audit including building and owning the audit schedule preparing supporting work papers and reconciliations acting as the main day-to-day contact for the auditors and resolving queries through to sign-off.
• Financial statements:drafting the statutory financial statements and supporting notes in line with the relevant accounting standards ensuring they are accurate complete andaudit-ready.
• Month-end and reporting:owning the month-end close including journals accruals prepayments and balance-sheet reconciliations and producingtimely reliable management accounts.
• Technical accounting:providing technical accounting guidance across the business researching the treatment of new or unusual transactions and documenting accounting positions.
• Controls and process:maintaining and strengthening internal controls and finance processes and helping to embed good practice as the team grows.
• Multi-entity and cross-border:supporting accounting across our UKUSand Europeanentities including intercompany balances and a multi-currency environment.
• Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) transition:playinga central rolein the move to a new ERP accounting system from data migration and reconciliation to testing process mapping and embedding the new system in business as usual.
• Compliance support:supporting the CFO with tax VAT and other statutory filings and wider finance compliance obligations.
• Team:potentially overseeing and developing a junior member of the finance team.

The successful candidate will have:

• A recognised accounting qualification (ACAACCAor CIMA) with meaningful post-qualification experience
• A practice background with hands-on external audit experience essential
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and proven experience preparing statutory financial statements
• Demonstrable experience running or supporting a year-end audit including ownership of the audit schedule
• Experience of an ERP implementation or system migration (highly…