Senior Assistant, Balance Sheet Reporting and Control, UK Finance

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

Are you a driven and detail-oriented part-qualified accountant eager to build a rewarding career in finance? This is your opportunity to join a high-performing team at the heart of Deloitte, gaining invaluable experience in Balance Sheet Financial Control for a leading professional services organisation. As the Balance Sheet Reporting & Control Senior Assistant, you'll play a key role in mitigating financial risk through investigation and analysis to ensure accuracy in our financial reporting. You'll develop in-demand technical skills, collaborate with various stakeholders and benefit from our supportive culture that champions continuous learning and development. If you're ready to make a tangible impact and accelerate your career in a dynamic and flexible environment, we encourage you to apply.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

As the Balance Sheet Reporting & Control Senior Assistant, you'll be a vital part of a team that ensures the financial control of our business. You'll gain direct exposure to critical financial controls across Payroll, Global Mobility and Options, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our financial reporting in this area. In this role, you will:

• Gain experience in a range of key financial control activities including preparing balance sheet reconciliations and reports, investigating and substantiating balances as well as supporting the month-end financial close process by preparing journals.
• Hone your skills in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, taking ownership of key financial control activities related to our payroll function. This is a fantastic opportunity to build a strong foundation and become a subject matter expert.
• Collaborate with and delegate to our offshore team, developing your task management and communication skills in a global work environment.
• Contribute to our continuous improvement by documenting processes, identifying areas for enhancement and implementing solutions to mitigate risk and improve efficiency.
• Benefit from our supportive learning culture which includes support for your professional qualification studies to develop in-demand technical skills and advance your career within a leading organisation.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

You're a highly organised and detail-oriented individual with a passion for accuracy and a genuine interest in financial control. You thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy working as part of a team to achieve shared goals. Your strong communication skills allow you to build positive working relationships and effectively convey information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Essentials:

• Currently studying towards a recognised accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with demonstrable progress towards qualification.
• Experience of reconciliations and reporting, including investigation and analysis of variances, demonstrating a proven understanding of financial control activities.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to develop effective relationships with colleagues at all levels.
• An ability to work effectively both within a team and independently, managing your own workload and prioritising tasks effectively.
• A positive, can-do approach, with a passion for personal development and continuous improvement.

Desirables:

• Experience with core Microsoft Office packages, with advanced Microsoft Excel skills being advantageous.
• Working knowledge of SAP and BlackLine.

At Deloitte, we value individuality and believe that diverse perspectives make us stronger. We're committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels empowered to be themselves and reach their full potential.

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Finance and Legal

We provide financial management and accounting support that is aligned to each area of Deloitte's business as well as the leadership team. We prepare the statutory and regulatory reporting required for Deloitte LLP and several other areas, whilst our General Counsel provides legal advice to the Board, the Executive and the Managing Partners.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"The support that Deloitte offers is great, and the work is always interesting and motivating." - Deloitte employee

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in Birmingham with hybrid working, including a monthly visit to Milton Keynes.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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