Financial Reporting Accountant (6 Month FTC)

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Salary: Competitive

Hours: Mon-Fri 37.5hrs

Location: The VHQ, Crawley (with flexible remote working)

Contract: 6 month Fixed term contract

Closing Date: Tuesday, 13th July

Many of our staff at Virgin work flexibly and in many different ways, different core hours or remote working. Please talk to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we are happy to explore what’s possible for the role.

In a nutshell

At Virgin Atlantic, we’re just as passionate as we’ve always been about becoming the most loved travel company. One thing we know for sure – this year has shown that when we combine our brand with the power of amazing people, we make something truly magical.

So, we are looking for someone brilliant, to join our Financial Reporting team as a Financial Reporting Accountant.

This great role will establish, operate, and control the financial accounting processes of the Group. Delivering accurate, reliable, and timely books of account for the VAL Group and its subsidiary undertakings. Overseeing the operation of core general accounting activities and deliver statutory and regulatory compliant reporting requirements.

Perhaps that’s you? We’d love to find out.

Day to day

As our Financial Reporting Accountant, you will be responsible for the following day to day activities:

• Deliver timely and robust intercompany and consolidation (including sub consolidation) accounting processes.

• Produce appropriately controlled Group closing, analysis and reporting and reconciliation processes:

• Deliver timely and accurate Group accounts to meet all statutory, regulatory, shareholder and management reporting requirements

• Coordinate and deliver the external audit process to successful and efficient conclusion.

• Deliver timely and informative balance sheet and cash flow analysis to support financial decision making.

• Ensure that all reporting requirements to third parties are satisfied.

• Through exploitation and development of financial systems to ensure the operation of accurate, efficient, timely and robust interfaces between the core financial systems

• Ensure consistency in operation, process and control across all Group locations and drive process efficiency for Group reporting.

• Support Senior Manager – Group Financial Reporting and VP - Finance Operations as required to manage improvements and changes to systems or processes and with any aspects of financial accounting as required.

• Any other Financial accounting or project management tasks as required

About you

Do you have exceptional interpersonal skills, able to build fantastic working relationships across the business?

In addition to the above, we are looking for our successful candidate to demonstrate the following:

• ACA/ACCA qualification with a proven background in IFRS

• Ability to challenge and drive sound accounting decisions

• Strong ability to exercise independent professional judgment and problem-solving skills within an overall business context

• A deep knowledge of both IFRS and FRS101 accounting standards and the ability to articulate technical accounting subject matter to influence the decision making of senior management.

• Strong appreciation of management accounting and financial systems – preferably Oracle financials with the skill to implement new systems and accounting processes into the Group reporting space.

• Ability to dissect, redesign and implement process change.

• Risk assessment and design of appropriate, proportionate controls.

• Ability to optimise processes, identifying weak processes and controls for improvement.

If this sounds like you, and you would like to be on this exciting journey with us, we would love to hear from you!

Be yourself – Our differences make us stronger

Virgin Atlantic are committed equal opportunities employers and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible applicants regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy and maternity. Diversity brings strength which is why we strive to provide an inclusive environment where individuality is celebrated, and we can ignite the potential of our forward-thinking mix of people.

Please be aware as part of our recruitment process we may look to use a variety of resourcing tools to help us understand your skills and experience in relation to the role you have applied for. These may include application questions, video interviews or online testing. Please feel free to contact us at recruitment@fly.virgin.com if there are any reasonable adjustments to our process that you would like us to consider, for example use of hearing loops, sign language interpreter etc. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if there are any issues preventing you from being at your best during your application or assessment process. Any issues raised after your assessment is completed or once a decision has been made will be too late for us to consider within our process.