Revenue Accountant
📍 Location: Derby, England, United Kingdom
🏢 Industry: Wholesale metal and minerals
💼 Work Setting: Hybrid
Are you passionate about financial control, reporting accuracy, and providing the insights that help drive strong business decisions?
We are seeking a detail-oriented Revenue Accountant to play a key role in supporting financial operations, reporting, cash management, and balance sheet integrity. This position will contribute to maintaining a robust financial control environment, ensuring accurate reporting, supporting investment and capital expenditure processes, and delivering meaningful financial analysis to stakeholders across the business.
The ideal candidate combines strong accounting knowledge, analytical skills, and a continuous improvement mindset with the ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment while maintaining high standards of accuracy and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
Capital Expenditure & Investment Management
- Support and administer capital expenditure approval processes, ensuring compliance with internal governance requirements.
- Maintain and monitor capital expenditure tracking tools and reporting.
- Review project spend against approved budgets and highlight variances and risks.
- Support project closure activities and ensure accurate capitalization of assets.
- Maintain accurate reporting of capital projects within financial reporting systems.
Fixed Assets & Balance Sheet Management
- Maintain and manage the Fixed Asset Register throughout the asset lifecycle.
- Conduct regular reviews of fixed assets to ensure completeness and accuracy.
- Manage accounting and reporting for intangible assets.
- Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations and investigate any discrepancies.
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies and internal controls.
Cash Management & Treasury Support
- Prepare and maintain cash flow forecasts and supporting analyses.
- Produce regular cash position reporting for management review.
- Perform bank reconciliations and support treasury-related activities.
- Assist in monitoring cash movements and financial controls.
Financial Reporting & Month-End Close
- Support month-end and period-end reporting processes.
- Prepare and post journals, accruals, prepayments, and other accounting adjustments.
- Deliver financial analysis and performance reporting across assigned cost centers.
- Provide variance analysis and commentary to support budget management.
- Ensure timely and accurate completion of financial reporting requirements.
Tax, Audit & Compliance
- Prepare information and returns to support indirect tax compliance requirements.
- Assist with external and internal audit activities, including preparation of schedules and supporting documentation.
- Support corporate tax and statutory reporting requirements.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards, financial controls, and company policies.
Budgeting & Financial Analysis
- Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes.
- Analyze financial data and provide insights to support decision-making.
- Assist with financial modeling and reporting requirements.
- Identify trends, risks, and opportunities through detailed financial analysis.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, controls, and reporting accuracy.
- Contribute to finance transformation and process improvement initiatives.
- Recommend efficiencies that enhance the effectiveness of the finance function.
- Support implementation of best practices and standardization efforts.
Qualifications
Required
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, AAT, or equivalent) completed or in progress preferred.
- Minimum 2+ years of accounting or finance experience.
- Strong understanding of:
- Financial Reporting
- Management Accounting
- Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Fixed Assets
- Cash Flow Management
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience working with ERP and financial reporting systems.
- Strong analytical and numerical abilities.
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
Preferred
- Experience supporting capital expenditure and fixed asset management.
- Experience with audit and tax compliance activities.
- Knowledge of corporate reporting and financial controls.
- Experience in a manufacturing, industrial, mining, or complex operational environment.
Core Competencies
- Management Accounting
- Financial Reporting
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Cash Flow Management
- Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Fixed Asset Accounting
- Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)
- Financial Analysis
- Audit & Compliance
- ERP Systems
- Process Improvement
- Problem Solving
- Stakeholder Management
- Attention to Detail