Senior Accountant

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Senior Accountant

Position: Full-time

Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK

To note you could be working at our main Wiltshire location or alternative location in our south coast-based sister companies.

Salary Range: £35,000-£45,000 per annum depending on relevant experience.

At Callen-Lenz, we are expanding the limits of what is possible. We specialise in crewed and uncrewed aircraft operations and technology, and due a long period of rapid growth we are looking for key roles to join the team and continue our exciting company growth. Callen-Lenz offers innovative and customer focused UAS solutions through our 4 key business strands; technical services, products, platforms and operational services.  We are looking for individuals to help drive forward our expansion, placing you at forefront of UAS development in the UK.

Our Values

• Teamwork

• Commitment

• Initiative

• Creativity

• Agility

• Integrity

• Enjoyment

Why Work for Us

Based in the heart of rural Wiltshire, close to the Historic city of Salisbury you will join our rapidly growing, friendly, and multi-disciplined team, working on a range of diverse and interesting projects, leading the way in this exciting field and witnessing the full lifecycle of our products. The Callen-Lenz team are passionate about what we do, and we are searching for individuals to grow with us as we expand into the aerospace industry.

Our benefits include:

• 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays)

• Buy/Sell holiday policy up to 5 days either way.

• Company contributed Share Incentive Plan.

• Pension Scheme via Royal London

• Life assurance scheme (6x basic salary)

• Income protection policy (75% of basic salary)

• Private Health Insurance via Vitality

• Private Dental insurance via Bupa

• Enhanced Maternity and paternity

• 1 Professional membership reimbursed per year.

• 1 paid volunteering day per year

• Access to an independent financial advisor year round

• Referral scheme

• Training & development opportunities

About the Role

As a Senior Accountant you will work within the wider Finance Team with responsibility for the day-to-day monitoring and reporting of overhead cost centres, across the business for various divisions.

You will play a crucial, proactive role in supporting the finance team to deliver quality information, in a timely manner, and to assist the leadership team in their decision making.

  

Responsibilities

• Pulling together the information from budget holders to ensure the cost centres accurately reflect all relevant costs

• Ensure that all costs are in line with their expected spend

• Providing regular reviews of individual Cost Centres with Budget Holders.

• Responsible for production of Cost Centre reports

• Take ownership of all system updates for respective overhead cost centres

• Assistant with financial and tax audits

• Investigating and resolving account discrepancies

• Provide insight to key stakeholders on significant variances

• Work closely with key stakeholders to plan and forecast future expenditure

• Responsible for completion of monthly balance sheet reconciliations, investigation, and resolution of discrepancies

• Managing and reconciling Purchase Orders

• Providing support to purchase ledger function as required

• Providing financial analysis support as required for the team

• Provide cover for other members of the finance team as necessary

• Ad-hoc project work as and when required

• Perform other related duties as required

  

About You

Qualifications:  Qualified in ATT, CIMA, ACCA OR ACA desirable

Skills and competencies

Essential

• Confidence in accounting processes
• Strong knowledge of Excel, Pivot Tables, V Look-ups) and experience of various accounting systems
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong IT skills
• Ability to work to tight deadlines in a pressurised environment and prioritise workload effectively

Desirable

• Experience in a similar role
• Exposure to a project management led business an advantage

Personal Attributes

• Must be a British Citizen or must have an existing right to work in the UK and have been a UK resident for 5 years.

• Ability to hold UK security clearance.

Callen-Lenz is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an inclusive working environment. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. It is essential that the successful candidate must, by the start of their employment have permission to work in the UK. Proof of identity and eligibility to work in the UK will be required prior to commencement of employment.