Assistant Financial Accountant- Maternity cover (20019)

Job Title: Interim Assistant Financial Accountant - one year FTC  (Maternity cover)

Job Location: Crawley (West Sussex), UK

Job ID: 20019

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris in Crawley specialise in technology and systems to enable quality pilot training from distance learning systems applications and maintenance solutions to training devices and full flight simulators, our technology covers the complete training spectrum.

A few of our employee benefits

• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Subsidised staff restaurant

About the role:

As an Assistant Financial Accountant, you will play a key supporting role in the ensuring that the financial accounting ledgers are maintained to a high standard, enabling high quality financial reporting.

Specifically, you will assist with financial reporting, control, and compliance activities, focusing on areas such as the annual statutory accounts, VAT reporting, and balance sheet reconciliations, as well as supporting accounts payable, accounts receivable, and cash management activities.

Working alongside the Senior Financial Accountant, you’ll support the completion of year-end accounts, contribute to audit processes, and help maintain efficient financial transaction procedures.

Day to day responsibilities will include (but not limited to):

• Preparing and posting monthly journals
• Reconciling balance sheet accounts
• Management of accruals, prepayments and other balance sheet accounts
• Month-end close of general ledgers
• Review of P&L and balance sheet to ensure all correct postings included
• Management of intercompany cross charges
• Assistance with HMRC matters, specifically monthly VAT returns
• Assistance with completion of annual statutory accounts and audit
• Assistance with internal audits
• Assistance with statutory and corporate tax submissions.
• Provision of holiday cover
• Other ad-hoc tasks as required

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications:

• Exposure to UK GAAP and US GAAP
• Extensive systems experience including SAP and Hyperion HFM
• Experience of working in a multicurrency environment
• Proficient excel user
• Experience of US working environment with tight reporting deadlines
• Strong communication skills at all levels
• Self-starter
• Team player
• Good attention to detail

Please note: Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK