FinancialReportingAccountant

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets. Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond. The Role * The Group Financial Accountant will be part of the Group Finance team and responsible for supporting the Group Reporting Manager in preparing high quality external reporting of the Group’s financial performance, position and cashflow. Principal Accountabilities * Monthly preparation of the Group’s consolidated Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cashflow for inclusion in the reporting to the Group’s owners and lenders * Preparing analysis on all material movements in the balance sheet, cashflow and P&L below EBITDA. * Preparing high quality external audit schedules and responses to auditor questions * Preparing an initial draft of the Group and UK subsidiary financial statements * Posting all consolidation, intercompany, transfer pricing and P&L items below EBITDA journals each month KEY INTERFACES * Tax & Treasury teams * Commercial Finance team * External auditors * Group Financial Operations team ## Qualifications We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participat