Financial Accountant

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What you’ll be doing

Hachette UK is recruiting a Financial Accountant, reporting to the Group Reporting Manager. This is a key role in the Central Accounting & Reporting team, supporting various financial and tax accounting tasks, including; cash reporting, sales reporting, VAT return preparation, assisting with monthly consolidation, and external statutory reporting. This role also helps to support the Group Reporting Manager during our bi-annual budget phase.

Who we are looking for

The right candidate will be a qualified accountant, QBE or part-qualifies studying towards ACCA, ACA or CIMA . They will be competent in Excel; able to understand and explain complicated concepts; be able to deliver to tight deadlines; be inquisitive, eager to learn with a willingness to gain and use practical knowledge and understanding of issues affecting the business where required.

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this. We offer 33 days annual holiday including Bank Holidays and have an extensive list of benefits that include: a wide-ranging training library, development programmes including mentoring, Cycle to Work vouchers, Private Medical Insurance, Pension Plan and Life Assurance scheme, DSE eye care vouchers, up to 70% discount on books we publish, a reward programme giving discounts from numerous sites, two volunteer days per year to use at your charity of choice, many employee networks to join, season ticket loans, rent deposit loans, free parking and free tea and coffee and much more!

The role will be based at our Didcot office, HHC, with a blend of in-office (minimum 3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Who we are and what we do

Hachette UK is a leading UK publishing group. The group is made up of ten autonomous publishing divisions and over fifty imprints with a rich and diverse literary history. Hachette UK is owned by Hachette Livre, the world’s second largest trade and educational publisher, and also has subsidiaries in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and India as well as working closely with our sister company in the USA, Hachette Book Group. Hachette UK aims to be the publisher and employer of choice for all people, and is a dynamic, fun place to work, where we are committed to Changing the Story.

Our Commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org

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