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Reconcile and substantiate balance sheet accounts at period close
The Financial Controller receives supported reconciliations for accruals, prepayments, fixed asset, payables and receivables control and suspense accounts tied to subledgers and the general ledger, with unsupported balances flagged for adjustment.
2jobs do it
5jobs help with it
39skills it needs
- Management Accountant
- Credit Controller
- Accounts Payable Specialist
- Management Accounting Lead
- Financial Controller
- Head of Finance
- Group Financial Controller
Does itHelps with it
- Reading and tracing unfamiliar code
- Reviewing human- and AI-generated code changes for correctness and risk
- Sampling and reviewing a team's work against standards
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Verifying reports and dashboards before and after release
- Verifying AI-assisted outputs against sources
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Judging the materiality of defects and deficiencies for the intended use
- Designing and validating digital analytics event measurement
- Reading data tables: rows, fields, types and units
- Establishing and declaring data grain
- Combining tables safely: cardinality, fan-out and conservation of totals
- Reading business metrics
- Comparing periods consistently
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Diagnosing data quality exceptions
- Validating records by matching, recomputation and end-to-end tracing
- Reconciling conflicting reports
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Calculating and verifying KPIs against their specification
- Assigning and operating data ownership and stewardship
- Reconciling finance subledgers and close records
- Investigating procurement spend leakage and duplicate commitments
- Explaining how business events flow into accounting records
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Interpreting financial statements and ratios for decisions
- Analysing costs, allocation and margin drivers
- Estimating accruals, provisions and expected credit loss under accounting policy
- Mapping entity results and eliminating intercompany balances in consolidation
- Running sensitivity and break-even analysis on model assumptions
- Assessing the control and reliability of end-user calculation files
- Monitoring and testing data control effectiveness
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Interpreting sustainability reporting standards and metric boundaries
Paths that teach the skills it needs
Skill Path
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Skill Path
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- Practice data
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Tool Path
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