Financial Accountant (FCA Reporting) - Top 20 Firm

Taylor Hawkes are working with a leading Top 20 Firm of Chartered Accountants who are looking for a FCA Reporting Financial Accountant for their Business Services Team to work on a client base of FCA regulated clients. The team our client are recruiting for are a strong division of the Business Services Group, which represents a third of the firm, they provide outsourced services that covers all clients' accounting and regulatory reporting requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the preparation of periodic returns for FCA regulated clients.
• Carry out all work, including planning, executing, completing and producing a client-ready product.
• Liaise with clients in your portfolio and act as the primary point of contact.
• Understand the technical rules and regulations and apply these to the FCA reporting requirements of a range of FCA regulated firms and to stay abreast of on-going regulatory updates.
• Prepare underlying calculations to support regulatory returns from internally and externally produced accounting information / other relevant data.
• Provide general accounting and professional services assistance to clients in the preparation of regulatory returns, for example monitoring capital adequacy from underlying accounting information.
• Recommend improvements to the clients' systems and controls and assist clients on an on-going basis.
• Assist clients with preparation of financial and capital adequacy forecasts as part of their regulatory compliance obligations.
• Provide ad hoc advisory services to the Firm's financial services sector clients as the need arises.

Individual:

• ACA/ACCA qualified, or equivalent
• Excellent knowledge of UK accounting standards
• Experience of preparing statutory and/or management accounts including cash-flows
• Ability to review a file and junior team members' work
• Client relationship skills
• Able to communicate effectively and clearly both verbally and in writing
• Excel (Intermediate to Advanced), Word and Outlook
• ACA/ACCA qualified with 1st time passes
• Knowledge of IFRS
• Experience of financial forecasting
• Knowledge of FCA regulations