Financial Accountant

Sewell Wallis are working with a leading business within the Construction sector who are looking to recruit a Financial Accountant for their team in Leeds. This will suit candidates who are ideally Practice trained, looking to make a first move into Industry and the role will offer long term career development and opportunities. What will you be doing? Preparing financial accounts. Taking ownership of balance sheet reconciliations. Preparing the monthly profit and loss statement. Assisting with group reporting. Implementing and managing financial controls and risk. Assisting with the delivery of continuous process and control improvements. Preparing VAT returns. Supporting with tax reporting and compliance. Supporting the wider finance team. What skills are we looking for? Fully qualified Accountant, ideally ACA / ACCA with a strong financial accounting and controls background. Experience working in a technical accounting role. Experience working in a fast paced environment. Ambitious individual who is self motivated. Ability to work with senior stakeholders across the business. Excellent analytical skills.What's on offer? Hybrid working. Free onsite parking. Great company culture.For further details please contact Emma Dugdale. To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions