Financial Accountant - Team Leader Job in Leeds, West Yorkshire

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Financial Accountant – Team Leader Job in Leeds, West Yorkshire

Job Description
Financial Accountant – Team Leader
Full Time – 37.5 hours per week
Are you looking to make a step-change in your accountancy career and looking to manage a large team in one of the largest shared services in Yorkshire? Are you passionate about building and developing others? Do you want a real opportunity to own, manage and influence the improvement of Asda's financial control?
You will lead and develop your team of up to 4 Qual & Part Quals through a variety of responsibilities throughout the month, (No one day is the same) supporting key business activities (balance sheet reconciliations, journal postings and validating supplier income)
You will build effective relationships with commercial business partners in order to analyse financial statements and provide commentary
You will drive continuous improvement throughout your area and the wider business; you will review and, where necessary, re-engineer processes to ensure compliance with accounting policies and to meet the needs of your customers. You will identify and lead on opportunities where technology can deliver process efficiency and improve the quality of the service that your team provides.
Financial Accountant – Team Leader Role
The controllership team is responsible for delivering transactional accounting processes and financial controls in a complete, accurate and timely manner. You will have a varied role across the month but with a particular focus on the delivery of a high-quality month-end close. This includes assisting in the preparation of ASDA's monthly financial statements in accordance with accounting standards, group accounting policies and procedures.
About You
* You will be a qualified/part qualified accountant, (CIMA, ACCA, ACA we would consider AAT)
* You will have experience managing a team with a passion for developing them
* You will be able to effectively prioritise your workload to meet deadlines, particularly over the month-end close
* You will have a logical approach to managing data and continuous improvement, with an understanding of the relevant technologies (Alteryx/SAP experience advantageous)
* You will be confident and pro-active, able to balance strong customer focus with the need to challenge
* You will be able to clearly articulate commercial analysis and explain variances to forecasts
* Comfortable to present information to senior colleagues
If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At Asda, we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is based at Asda House, Leeds with the flexibility to work from home 2-3 days per week
You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-
* Discretionary company bonus
* Company pension up to 7% matched
* 10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves.
Interested in this Financial Accountant – Team Leader role? Submit your application via the apply button today!
Closing date: 9th October 2022

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Category: Accounting/Financial/Insurance
City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
Country: United Kingdom
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