Group Accountant

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About the Company

Allegis Group is a multi-branded specialist in providing tailored staffing solutions to market leading clients. As the largest privately-owned staffing company globally, we consistently outperform our competitors and continuously deliver on our promises. With staffing at the core of what we know best, we understand how important people are to any business, therefore at Allegis Group we invest in the training and development of our people, offering continuous opportunity to those who earn the right.

Our goal is to become the staffing and services company others aspire to be.

About the Role

The Group Accountant will contribute towards the preparation and submission of the statutory accounts for all 20+ entities across multiple jurisdictions within EMEA whilst facilitating the interim and year-end audits. The Group Accountant will also support the month-end process to ensure that we report to our U.S counterparts accurately and within the designated time frames. The successful candidate will be a professional with an incredible attitude to learning and personal development and has a proven record being ambitious and proactive.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with the various departments, for the external audit. Provide the auditors any deliverables required for them to complete their audit fieldwork and if recommendations are made, incorporate these into the day-to-day activities of the management accountants
• Prepare and submit FRS
  101 financial statements for all the UK entities within the filing deadlines, including assisting with the Group consolidated financial statements.
• Liaise with external accountants to ensure all non-UK financial statements submission deadlines are met and within their local GAAP requirements
• Review the monthly intercompany differences and revenue/expense eliminations checks.
• Supporting our US counterparts with annual audit related financials.
• Calculate and post the quarterly interest on intercompany balances
• Support the bid team with any requests that they have in relation to bids as well as creating and maintaining the share point
• Liaise with the Sustainability Reporting Specialist to assist with financials for sustainability reporting, such as SECR.
• Maintaining thresholds checklist for all financial reporting.
• Ad hoc financial analysis and investigative tasks
• Carrying out of such ad-hoc tasks as required by the Group Statutory Reporting Manager and/or Financial Controller/Director

Qualifications

Part Qualified (finalist) with ACCA / ACA / CIMA

Required Skills

• Knowledge of external audit / experience in audit within Practice is desirable
• Fully PC literate with the ability to use the MS suite
• Aptitude for continual learning and development with different systems, applications and multiple software packages
• Ability to use IT packages, mainly Excel to analyse and manipulate data
• Previous recruitment or similar industry background is desirable
• Previous experience of FCCS (Financial consolidation and close) is desirable
• Experience of multi-currency
• Knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP

Required Behaviors

• Highly organised, attentive and solution orientated
• High level of attention to detail
• Active listening skills and strong communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritise workload and meet deadlines
• Process driven
• High level of numeric and analytic ability
• Capable of working competently with diverse groups of people, data and processes accommodating an ever changing environment.
• Confidently interfaces with all levels of staff internally and externally
• Personally accountable
• Continuous learner, seeks growth and improvement
• High character and work ethic and is a role model for others

• Seniority level Associate

• Employment type
  
  Full-time

• Job function
  
  Accounting/Auditing, Administrative, and Finance
• Industries
  
  IT Services and IT Consulting and Financial Services

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