Financial Reporting Accountant
Do you have a relevant accounting qualification and a proactive approach to making finance tasks and processes efficient and automated? Are you able to help us deliver on our plan to shorten our reporting cycle and use our existing data sources as efficiently as possible?
About us
The Science Museum Group (SMG) is an exciting organisation at the boundary of the private, public and charitable sectors, with a fascinating variety of reporting challenges. The finance team is based across the Group's six sites, with ambitious plans for improvement in financial reporting.
We are now recruiting for a Financial Reporting Accountant on a fixed-term contract for 12 months. This role is full-time, working 35 hours per week and can be based either at the Science Museum in London or the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, with hybrid working also available.
About the role
As Financial Reporting Accountant you will help to deliver important parts of our plan to shorten our reporting cycle, improve our control environment and increase the value of our financial data to a range of stakeholders.
You will focus on ensuring that the data required to automate the majority of our record to report cycle is available within our finance system, TechnologyOne, and that our processes are system-driven and repeatable. You will look at transactions across our Statements of Comprehensive Income and Financial Position (P&L and balance sheet), including those related to the fixed assets in our physical estate, fund accounting and other museum activities.
You will have the opportunity to think about how we can be as efficient as possible in using our existing data sources, whether owned by finance or by other departments, to produce a range of financial reporting outputs such as our group's statutory accounts (under the Charities SORP and Companies Act), our consolidation pack for Government (under IFRS) and other statistical returns.
About you
Joining us you will have a relevant accounting or financial qualification e.g. ACA, CIMA, CIPFA in addition to good technical knowledge of current accounting standards. You will have significant experience of reporting and auditing processes with an interest in future developments in these areas.
Crucially, you will have a proactive approach to making processes efficient with a commitment to increasing the use of automation in finance tasks. You will be a good communicator with the ability to plan and deliver pieces of work, setting clear expectations for others and yourself.
Applying
View the Vacancy Information Pack listed under 'Attachments' on the vacancy listing on our website for more details about the role and the application process, or click 'Apply Online' to submit an application.
Don't feel you meet all of the criteria? At SMG, we are committed to building a workforce that is open for all, and welcome you to apply, even if your experience doesn't fit perfectly. With your transferable skills, you could be the right candidate for this, or other opportunities that we have.
What we offer
Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We understand that work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer the perks listed below, as well as support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.
- Support with personal and professional development
- 27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced contributory pension
- Unmind App and other wellbeing support
- Interest-free loans
- Days Out discounts
- Health & Dental Insurance
Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to foster a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to Inspire Futures.
