Senior UK Financial Accountant, Financial Times
2+ days a week in office
Global business publication
Job no longer available
Global business publication
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
The FT has an uncompromising mission: delivering independent, quality information, news and services to individuals and companies around the globe. It’s the cornerstone of our reputation and the heart of our ambitions for the future.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)
- Previous experience in a similar role or a background in practice (e.g. audit)
- Strong technical understanding of UK GAAP/IFRS
- Strong working knowledge of Excel
- Experience of Oracle an advantage
- Ability to work to demanding deadlines
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work with, influence and persuade finance and non-finance colleagues
- Ability to work independently and apply initiative to identify issues, present them to the relevant audience and create practical solutions
- Enthusiasm, resilience, drive and commitment, with the ability to work effectively in a constantly changing environment
- Strong commercial acumen and the foresight to ask the right questions
What the job involves
- The UK Financial Control team is responsible for the financial governance of the FT Group’s UK-registered legal entities. It plays a key role in ensuring the reliability of business reporting, its compliance with accounting standards and the safeguarding of the FT’s business assets through the implementation and monitoring of a robust system of controls, the development and scrutiny of accounting processes deployed across the business and the identification and assessment of risks
- Review balance sheet reconciliations to ensure balances are accurately supported and are in line with accounting standards and FT policies and provide constructive feedback to preparers
- Ownership of the indirect tax accounting process for UK-registered legal entities and associated reconciliation processes and sales tax sweeping for US-based legal entities
- Partnership with Commercial Finance and the wider Finance team to provide assurance over risk areas and ensure the proper functioning of accounting processes
- Participation in corporate development projects to include acquisition due diligence, group reorganisations, liquidations, etc
- Review and approval of payment batches prepared by the Accounting Services team
- Complete month end and year end activities diligently and in accordance with communicated timetables
- Prepare analysis, supporting schedules and journal entries
- Collaborate with teams across Finance to ensure a clean, supported balance sheet for UK legal entities, promoting consistency and accuracy and ensuring adherence to FT controls
- Provide accounting advice under UK GAAP (FRS 101) to the wider Finance team to ensure accounting standards are applied
- Identify areas for efficiency gains and improvements to controls and proactively engage in the delivery of these
- Assist with ad hoc projects as instructed by the UK Financial Controller
- Contribute to a best in class financial control function
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1888, the FT has grown into one of the world's biggest online and broadsheet economics and business news providers. It has a strong focus on financial journalism and economic analysis, and provides this essential analysis to companies and individuals across the world.
As well as economics and business, the FT also offers sections on opinion, life and arts, how to spend, and more. In 2022, six of its writers won awards in science, data and investment categories, illustrating the breadth and quality of the FT’s journalism.
The company adapts well to changes in the market to maintain its readership. For example, it recently launched a digital hub and weekly newsletter called Cryptofinance to shine a light on the digital asset industry and how innovations are rippling into mainstream finance.
The FT Group employs more than 2300 people worldwide, including 700 journalists in 40 countries. It includes the FT, FT Specialist, and a number of services and joint ventures. FT's focus on providing impartial, high-quality content has gained it a record-paying readership of over a million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
52% female employees
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
- Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
- Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
- Pension contribution
- Local health coverage plans
- Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
- Financial wellbeing products and services
Company values
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Integrity
- Trust
- Inclusion
- Subscriber focus
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
John Ridding
(CEO)After studying for a degree in PPE at Oxford, John worked as Chairman of Pearson Asia, as well as editor of the FT in Asia. In 2006, he was appointed CEO of the FT Group.
Roula Khalaf
(Editor)Following a degree at Columbia University and four years at Forbes, Khalaf joined the FT in 1995 as Associate Editor and Middle East Editor. Since January 2020, she has served as Editor.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Financial Times
Yasir Mirza (Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion)
- D&I annual report
- Reporting pay gaps
- Next generation board
- Employee networks, including Proud FT, FT Embrace, FT Women, FT Families, FT Sustainability, FT Mental Health and FT Access,
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