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Your Role: EIT Oxford is seeking a highly skilled and detail oriented Financial Accountant to support the Financial Controller in ensuring the financial integrity of the organisation. The Financial Accountant will play a key role in the preparation of financial statements, statutory reporting, reconciliations, and financial controls, ensuring compliance with UK financial regulations and best practices. Your Responsibilities: • Assist in the preparation of statutory financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance with UK accounting standards. • Support the annual statutory audit process, including preparation of audit files, analysis, and responding to auditor queries. • Support property valuations, impairment assessments and related accounting adjustments, including preparation of supporting schedules and reconciliations. • Prepare and submit monthly CIS returns, ensuring accurate reporting, reconciliation and compliance with statutory deadlines. • Prepare VAT returns for assigned entities, including reconciliation of VAT control accounts, review of supporting transactions and investigation of discrepancies, for review and approval prior to submission. • Maintain accounting records for investment properties, PPE, capital expenditure and associated lease arrangements in accordance with FRS 102. • Review financial information received from external property managers, ensuring completeness, accuracy and appropriate accounting treatment. • Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring timely resolution of reconciling items and preparing commentary where necessary. • Ensure compliance with financial policies, internal controls, and regulatory requirements. • Support Group financial reporting requirements and ensure data accuracy. • Support the Financial Controller in implementing and monitoring financial controls and risk management procedures. • Work to deadlines to ensure timely month end and year-end financial close processes, proactively communicating any delays and ensuring financial data integrity is maintained. • Process and reconcile corporate allocations, transfer pricing adjustments, R&D recharges, and tax provisions. • Support financial accounting and reporting across multiple group entities, ensuring accuracy, consistency and compliance with relevant accounting standards • Assist and maintain the risk register, updating identified risks regularly and communicating new and growing risks to relevant management. • Maintain procedural documentation covering all tasks. • Work closely with the accounts payable and accounts receivable teams to ensure assist with financial transaction processing. • Assist in cash flow management, ensuring accurate forecasting and timely remittance of funds. • Ensure compliance with financial policies, internal controls, and regulatory requirements. • Assist in financial system improvements, including ERP enhancements (Oracle Fusion preferred) and reporting automation. • Collaborate with other departments, to support budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis. • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and financial reporting accuracy. • Support ad hoc financial projects and analysis as required by the Financial Controller and Finance Director. Requirements Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: • Part-qualified or finalist accountant (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent) with strong knowledge of UK accounting standards and financial regulations. • Strong excel and analytical skills. • Experience in financial reporting, statutory accounts preparation, and audit processes. • Strong technical accounting skills and experience in balance sheet and income statement reconciliations. • Experience in transaction processing and maintaining financial controls within a complex organisation. • Proficiency in ERP systems (Oracle Fusion preferred) and strong Microsoft Excel skills. • Ability to work to tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail. • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret financial data and provide clear insights. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders. • Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritise workload, and work independently. • Experience working within a fast-paced, high-growth, or technology-driven environment is an advantage • Experience in property accounting, including investment properties, fixed assets, capital expenditure or lease accounting. • Practical experience preparing VAT returns and CIS submissions. Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience: • Experience of working in a multi-national environment would be advantageous. Benefits We offer the following benefits: • Enhanced holiday. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July. • Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5% • Life Assurance. • Income Protection • Private Medical Insura