Accountant, Financial Reporting, Financial Analyst

Job Description

Signature Rail is looking for an experienced and commercially focused Accountant to support the Business Leader. This role will play a key part in providing insightful analysis, robust financial planning, and strategic decision support to ensure the achievement of business objectives.

This is a hybrid position, and you will be required to attend our York office at least once per month and will involve occasional international travel to attend events.

Signature Rail is a York-based business, who specialise in timetable planning solutions in the rail industry. We are a client-first business with over 30 years’ experience of moving the world’s people through intelligent rail planning.

Signature Rail is part of the Modaxo family. Modaxo is a dedicated global organisation bringing together businesses from across Volaris Group that collectively focus on advancing new technologies and innovations for People Transportation.

The company operates a hybrid working approach. Employees mainly work remotely but must be willing to attend the physical office as and when required, and may be required to travel internationally on occasion to attend business events.

• Be a business partner by supporting Business Unit Leaders and functional managers to develop clear business plans, priorities and forecasts in line with our specialised KPIs. Providing financial support and monthly reports to Functional Heads
• Internal and external reporting including monthly/ quarterly/annual group reporting and statutory audit of the annual report
• Assist project teams to guide their focus onto key performance issues and help them measure their impact and improvement.
• Review of monthly Balance sheet and P&L
• Provide Support to the sales team on Tender/bid submission - scenario planning creating P&L & key KPIs
• Lead quarterly forecasts and leveraging our proprietary metrics to ensure high business performance
• Develop Intercompany relationships so that we align Quarterly Strategic Reviews (QSR) and forecasts with them and prevent missing anything that will affect the business’s QSR
• Prepare and review financial models and proposals on an ad hoc basis to support the decision making process across a range of commercial issues
• Preparation of monthly Management reports, KPIs and variance analysis
• Reconcile, maintain and validate multiple balance sheet account reconciliations
• Develop and improve finance and project systems
• Calculation of the Company Bonus and incentive schemes
• Complete €1m checklists for large tender/bids
• Project champion of implementation of new finance system and be the business super-user on key modules
• Support internal and external audits and yearly statutory fillings
• Lead best practices to processes, people and systems to affect revenue, profitability and cashflow, to improve operating efficiency and performance
• Lead and implement introduction of new systems and processes such as new financial systems, expense management and other reporting systems

Additional Activities (shared with other members of finance team):

• Take on company-wide finance tasks as allocated from time to time
• Support financial team providing day-to-day assistance as required
• Ad hoc financial analysis in support of the preparation of management accounts
• Travel will be required

Knowledge and

Skills required:

The ideal candidate will be / have:

• Professionally qualified (CIMA, ACA, ACCA, ACMA) with at least 3 years post qualification experience
• Strong organisational abilities, experience of working to tight deadlines and a hands‑on approach to finance
• Advanced Excel including Pivot tables, Look‑up functions and similar is essential for all analysis and reporting duties
• Deep knowledge of accounting principles, good understanding of financial/management information systems. Technically competent with finance and accounting knowledge and skills
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to adapt to and implement change.
• High level of numeracy (Accounting/Maths/Statistics) and the ability to interpret management information
• High computer literacy, with particular reference to accounting and management software and their application in a software / project environment

• Experience with Microsoft Great Plains or Net Suite
• Previous experience of working within IFRS
  15 Revenue Recognition
• Previous experience of working within a multi-currency reporting environment

• Approachable and professional
• Ability to work flexible hours under pressure to tight timescales.
• Passionate and driven
• Self‑motivated and energetic
• Flexible and adaptable – We believe in leading through learning
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• 25 days holiday plus statutory bank holidays (Holiday Buy & Sell scheme also available)
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Pension – matched to 5%
• Private medical insurance
• Health Cash Back Scheme
• Life assurance scheme with virtual GP service