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Vacancy: Financial Accountant - Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire

Posted on 13/03/2025
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About Optoma

Optoma Europe Ltd is a leading specialist provider of award-winning projection and digital display products for the business and consumer markets. Optoma was established in 1997 and currently employs around 150 employees across Europe, with the majority of these operating from our headquarters in Hemel Hempstead, UK.

Remuneration

Working for Optoma, you can expect a competitive salary with additional corporate benefits such as medical insurance, dental cover, pension and up to 30 days holiday per year - subject to service requirements.

Job Description

This is an exciting time to join us following the formation of Optoma Holding based in the UK to bring together our global regions of EMEA, USA, AP, and China, based in the UK, as we globally consolidate, systems and processes. With such exciting change, and with Optoma Europe playing a pivotal role in the transformation, this role will help ensure our financial systems and processes continue to support our strategic ambitions.

As the Financial Accountant EMEA, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Finance Manager EMEA, ensuring accurately and timely completion of financial reporting and tax compliance. You will contribute to smooth month-end and year-end closing processes and actively seek improvements to the overall efficiency of the finance department.

If you are motivated by working for a successful multinational company that remains small enough for every person to matter, and where you can make a real contribution and difference to the success of the company, then this may well be the role for you!

Key Responsibilities

  • Month-end Closing – one of the key members to deliver month end closing and reporting 
  • Holding company - Responsible for closing and reporting the financial results for the Holding company
  • Technical Accounting - Responsible for the accounting and maintenance of processes to effectively report on sales allowances, stock and IFRS 16 leases
  • Financial Reporting – Producing financial reports and updating accounting policies, including but not limited to production of annual statutory accounts and collaborating with external auditors
  • Internal Audit – Assisting the internal audit of subsidiaries and providing business process improvements
  • Tax compliance – Involved in tax compliance, including but not limited to preparing monthly VAT returns in the UK and the Netherlands, providing analysis for corporation tax computations, considering transfer pricing implications, PAYE settlements and Country by Country reporting
  • Other compliance - Supporting compliance for banking, Companies House submissions, ONS reporting, etc
  • Support - Reporting to and supporting the Finance Manager for EMEA

Candidate Specification

Key Skills & Experience:

  • ACA/ACCA qualified with post qualification experience
  • Have a solid knowledge and understanding of IFRS and UK GAAP
  • Strong Excel and analytical skills are paramount
  • Excellent communication skills being able to explain accounting concepts and procedures to the wider business
  • Self-motivated and ability to work independently as well as part of the team

Desirable:

  • Previous experience in a similar FMCG multi-national industry trading across EMEA is preferred
  • Experience of Oracle NetSuite ERP would be beneficial
  • Practice background

How to apply

To apply for this vacancy please email your CV and a covering letter to [email protected]

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