Group Financial Accountant

Group Financial Accountant

Your Role: Group Financial Accountant

This is an excellent opportunity for a recently qualified accountant (ACA or equivalent) looking to make their first move to industry and further their career with financial accounting expertise. As Group Financial Accountant, you will play a key role in the year-end reporting process, ensuring accurate preparation of financial statements and supporting commercial decision making. You will gain exposure to financial accounting as well as opportunities to get involved in process improvement projects, control implementation and business partnering with the wider business.

As a Group Financial Accountant as Global, you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Group consolidation and statutory accounts process (70%): taking ownership for significant areas of the year-end audit and creation of the Group consolidated and subsidiary financial statements. Liaising with the subsidiaries both in the UK and overseas to obtain the financial information used to prepare the yearly accounts and facilitate the analysis of this information to ensure accuracy and timeliness of the data.
• Lease accounting process (30%): preparation and analysis, including applicable accounting papers, of intercompany, IFRS 16, IAS 36, IFRS 15 and exceptional costs/income information, including resolving complex technical accounting issues and disclosure requirements and liaising with external auditors on subject matters.

What You’ll Love About This Role

1. Think Big: Every day is an opportunity to push boundaries, working across departments to bring fresh ideas to life.

2. Own It: The opportunity to develop your own approach and controls and to action these across the Group.

3. Keep It Simple: Simplify processes, standardise reporting, and help the business stay focused on what matters most.

4. Better Together: Collaborate with a high performing team to address the reporting challenges faced.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Developed an understanding of the group structure and how the statutory accounts are generated.
• Created the Group and subsidiary statutory accounts to a high standard and on time.
• Built a good working relationship with the external reporting team, key business partners, the wider finance teams and external auditors.
• Developed a detailed understanding of the Group, key technical accounting areas applied and understand where improvements can be made.

What You’ll Need

• Good communication skills: ability to communicate financial information effectively to finance and non-finance staff.
• Attention to detail: meticulous in ensuring information is accurately presented and consolidated.
• Problem solving skills: methodical approach to tackling problems as and when they arise.
• Efficient: proactive, organised and comfortable working to tight deadlines.
• Flexibility & positivity: shows up with a can-do attitude to deliver top results and manage multiple areas of work at one time.