Financial Accountant, Prolific

• Recently qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA preferred)
• Proven experience performing month-end tasks and delivering on time
• Experience working with large data sets with a keen eye for accuracy and identifying discrepancies
• Proactive approach to problem-solving with confidence in suggesting improvements
• Comfortable in a fast-paced work environment or previous experience in a startup/scale-up
• A fast learner who is quick to pick up new systems and processes whilst being comfortable adapting to change
• Confident communicator who can engage with various stakeholders, including those from non-finance backgrounds

Desirable

• Prolific is looking for an ambitious and proactive newly qualified accountant to join our dynamic and cohesive Finance team
• This diverse role provides an excellent opportunity to progress your career and enhance your technical skills while contributing to key deliverables such as month-end close, statutory reporting and managing stakeholder relations
• The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, ensuring accurate financial reporting and delivering work to a consistently high standard within agreed deadlines
• You will be a team player who is comfortable collaborating with colleagues while being confident to work independently, taking pride in and ownership of tasks
• Take ownership of month-end tasks, including journals and reconciliations
• Balance sheet reconciliations and P&L variance analysis with commentaries
• Quarterly VAT returns
• Responsibility for managing and responding to finance-related queries from internal and external stakeholders
• Processing customer refunds, ensuring adherence to AML requirements
• Creating automations and efficiencies in existing processes to reduce time spent on month-end
• Updating policies to optimise for efficiency whilst maintaining high levels of control
• Identifying opportunities for improvements in company-wide reporting, and collaborating with colleagues to drive forward improvements
• Seek to reduce finance-related queries from customers and internal teams by identifying common queries/problems, and implementing solutions to them
• Ensure costs are allocated to appropriate verticals and budget holders
• Tracking and reconciling user balance cashflow movements
• Support preparation of financial reports and invoices for key customers, monitoring spend against contracts
• Assist FP&A in keeping Prolific’s re-forecast up to date and accurate
• Ad-hoc projects