Financial Accountant

Job Description

As a Financial Accountant, you will focus on balance sheet control, income statement management, and analysis, working closely with the Senior Financial Accountant to refine processes, drive cost efficiencies, and enhance overall financial performance.

Your responsibilities will encompass the management of financial tasks across customer contracts, ensuring timely and accurate account reporting and reconciliation.

You will play a key role in executing core financial processes, proactively addressing finance-related needs and maintaining open communication with customers and ISS stakeholders.

By delivering value-added financial services to Account Leadership and customers, you will help align financial goals with ISS's broader business objectives, contributing to a culture of financial excellence and strategic support.

This position offers an opportunity to impact financial strategy, improve operational efficiency, and build strong client relationships within a collaborative and growth-focused environment.

• Adhere to internal financial controls and complete Controls Self-Assessments
• Conduct and ensure accuracy in balance sheet reconciliations per UK&I standards
• Support external and internal audits, including Financial Controls & Assurance reviews
• Perform Month-End Close tasks for assigned accounts, including accruals and prepayments
• Assist in managing Overdue Accounts Receivable and Trade Working Capital
• Investigate and explain variances from financial forecasts

• Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA) or equivalent experience
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting complex information
• Sound judgment and decision-making abilities
• Highly organised with effective planning and time management
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to perform well under pressure and challenge existing processes

ISS is a world-leading workplace and facility management company, connecting people and places to make the world work better. Working with customers day by day, side by side, we understand every aspect of the user experience.

Through a unique combination of intelligent solutions, high standards and people who care, to help our customers achieve their purpose, whether it’s hospitals healing patients, businesses producing the next great innovation, or airports bringing passengers home to their families. ISS is committed to doing business the right way, taking its corporate responsibility very seriously. Our passion is people.

We offer you a challenging and exciting career in an organisation with people at its heart. In ISS, everyone has the opportunity to develop, grow and make a difference.

ISS is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer.

ISS welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race (which includes race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin and caste) religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

Our passion for inclusivity and diversity makes ISS a more creative, productive and happy place to work.