Why a career in Financial Reporting Advisory?
There’s never been a better time to take on a new challenge as a Financial Reporting Senior:
- A dynamic role providing day-to-day variety as well as insight into all elements of financial reporting, and advisory work
- It will allow for the development of a wide set of transferrable skills, a deeper understanding of financial reporting and an opportunity to become an expert in the field, as well as being at the forefront of supporting clients with the ever-evolving financial reporting landscape
- Opportunities for career progression and exposure to a great variety of work
What’s the Opportunity?
Iconic Resourcing presents a fantastic opportunity for a Financial Reporting Senior to join an established Audit and Assurance Team within one of Scotland’s leading Chartered Accountancy Practices based in Glasgow.
The role can be based anywhere in Scotland providing that you are able to travel to one of the firm’s office locations when required.
You will be joining a team that’s engaged with its local communities and committed to supporting them including raising money for charitable causes.
If quality, integrity and a workplace that prioritises giving back as much as you put in are important to you then you will fit right in.
Employee benefits include: a personal pension scheme, access to private healthcare and life assurance, as well as a personal training and development plan. You will also be able to work flexibly and in a hybrid model.
How will you fit?
In order to take on this role, you will:
- Be a qualified CA or have a suitable equivalent qualification or experience.
- Have an enquiring mind, good project management skills
- Have good interpersonal skills and a commitment to high levels of client service.
- Be particularly interested in Financial Reporting and developments within financial reporting
- Be motivated to develop your own technical knowledge and support our clients with the challenges that they face.
You’ll add value to the team by:
- Preparing statutory financial statements for clients with minimal supervision, using both Microsoft Word and CCH Accounts Production software, in accordance with both UK GAAP and IFRS
- Working with other internal departments on the delivery of statutory financial statements and advisory work
- Supporting the delivery of technical papers on specific accounting issues encountered by our clients
- Supporting other types of advisory work including group restructures, application and interpretation of existing accounting standards and adoption of new standards
- Actively monitoring and managing your work including ensuring deadlines and budgets are met, work is completed to a good standard and communication is effective both within the team and with our clients
- Where circumstances allow, delegating work to Assistants and ensuring that they are supported as necessary to complete that work to the standard required
- Briefing, training and de-briefing Assistants, giving formal feedback as required
- Liaising with client staff whether at the client’s premises or on-line and building effective relationships with our clients
- Taking an active role in your own development by seeking regular feedback and identifying and acting upon personal development needs.
So what next?
To find out more about this role, please contact Caitlin Farquharson or to apply, click the button below.
At Iconic Resourcing, we are engaged by many leading organisations across Scotland and our aim is to keep the recruitment process simple.
Iconic Resourcing is an equal opportunities employer, and all applications will be treated as such. We act as both an employment business and an employment agency.