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Viasat

22d ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Entry, Junior & Mid Level
  • Accounting & Tax
    Business, Operations & Strategy
  • London

AI generated summary

  • You should be a graduate nearing completion of an accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA/ACA), with IFRS knowledge, strong Excel skills, and analytical abilities. SAP experience is a plus.
  • You will handle monthly consolidations, financial reporting, journal preparations, statutory accounts, and support audits while managing compliance and ensuring timely vendor payments and reconciliations.

Requirements

  • Graduate currently completing professional accounting qualification (ACCA/CIMA/ACA) or equivalent
  • Working knowledge of accounting principles, standards, IFRS (Knowledge of USGAAP accounting principles would be beneficial, but not essential).
  • Analytical and technical accounting skills
  • Strong knowledge of excel - including pivot tables and V-Look ups
  • Flexible, hard-working and results oriented.
  • Experience of SAP and/or Adaptive Insights would be an advantage
  • Knowledge of USGAAP accounting principles would be beneficial, but not essential.

Responsibilities

  • Monthly consolidation
  • Group External Financial Reporting
  • Annual Report (back half)
  • Statutory reporting for all legal entities
  • Quarterly reporting
  • The external audit relationship
  • Providing accounting and commercial support to organisation
  • Own the Group accounting policies
  • Supporting tax, legal and cosec teams with compliance reporting requirements
  • Preparation of month end journals, reconciliations, financial statements, and other financial accounting activities within the central Group Financial Reporting team
  • Posting journals in relation to complex accounting areas
  • Preparing the journals for complex accounting areas specifically relating to IFRS-16 leases, equity-based payments, pension accounting and hedging
  • Preparing the monthly cashflow to be included as part of the monthly management reporting
  • Reviewing consolidation entries for intercompany trade balance sheet accounts (including accounts receivable, accounts payable, prepayments and accruals)
  • Working with the Financial Operations team to ensure appropriate elimination in SAP, while ensuring an appropriate elimination in Adaptive Insights
  • Reviewing balance sheet eliminations for all Group entities not on SAP
  • Liaising with local accountants and the Group revenue team to ensure balances are aligned on both sides
  • Preparation of statutory accounts (in multiple currencies) within the Group
  • Preparation of notes for the Group Consolidated Financial Statements, including both IFRS and US GAAP financial statements
  • Preparation of various statistical returns for government agencies from around the world
  • Ensuring that these are fairly distributed amongst the team and completed on time
  • Providing support for the posting all journals relating to treasury transactions and reconciling between the treasury management system (TMS) and SAP
  • Review of both external and intercompany borrowings and interest on a monthly basis
  • Management of the Group Financial Reporting cost centre, tracking all PR and POs to ensure they are in line with fee quotes and forecasts
  • Working with Accounts Payable to ensure vendors are paid on time
  • Working with the P2P team to accurately record month end accruals
  • Supporting the control environment (specifically in respect to SoX), including GL reconciliations (utilising the Blackline application)
  • Preparation of quarterly and annual supporting schedule for the group’s SEC and US GAAP reporting requirement (10Q and 10K)

FAQs

What is the main responsibility of the Group Financial Accountant?

The main responsibility of the Group Financial Accountant is to manage the preparation of month-end journals, reconciliations, financial statements, and other financial accounting activities within the Group Financial Reporting team.

What accounting qualifications are required for this position?

Candidates should be graduates currently completing a professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CIMA, or ACA, or an equivalent.

Is experience with SAP or Adaptive Insights required for this job?

While experience with SAP or Adaptive Insights is advantageous, it is not necessarily required for this position.

What accounting principles should candidates be familiar with?

Candidates should have a working knowledge of accounting principles and standards, particularly IFRS. Knowledge of USGAAP is beneficial but not essential.

What skills are needed for this role?

Candidates should possess analytical and technical accounting skills, strong knowledge of Excel (including pivot tables and V-Lookups), and should be flexible, hard-working, and results-oriented.

Will the Group Financial Accountant be involved in external audits?

Yes, the Group Financial Accountant will be responsible for managing the external audit relationship as part of their duties.

What type of reports will the Group Financial Accountant prepare?

The Group Financial Accountant will prepare various reports including statutory accounts, consolidated financial statements, and statistical returns for government agencies.

Is knowledge of tax compliance necessary for this role?

While not explicitly stated, the Group Financial Accountant will support the tax, legal, and company secretarial teams with compliance reporting requirements, indicating a familiarity with tax compliance can be beneficial.

What is the work environment like in the finance team?

The work environment in the finance team is described as a small, high-profile team that values communication and collaboration across multiple departments including Financial Operations, Company Secretarial, Tax, and Treasury.

How does the company promote diversity and inclusion?

Viasat is committed to creating a welcoming and diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer, ensuring all qualified applicants receive fair consideration regardless of various personal characteristics or statuses.

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Viasat

Telecommunications
Industry
5001-10,000
Employees
1986
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone, and everything can be connected. For more than 30 years, Viasat innovations have helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments, and militaries around the world communicate — bringing connectivity when, where, and how it’s needed most. Viasat focuses on the connections that matter as we deliver bold results for our customers, partners, and shareholders worldwide. We provide internet to communities and families in places around the world where cable or fiber isn’t available so they can learn, laugh, and live just like everyone else. We deliver secure, resilient connectivity services and solutions to our military and allies that give them the information dominance they need to bring warfighters home safely. We ensure people on-the-go have access to the same quality of internet in the air or at sea as they have at home. And we give businesses of all sizes the freedom to keep their people, places, and things secure and connected — wherever opportunity takes them.