Group Financial Accountant

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week.
Join our Group Accounting Team to deliver timely and accurate financial reporting. Your experience of multinational consolidations, either from audit or industry, will enable you to hit the ground running. You will play an integral part of the team preparing the monthly group consolidation, raising consolidation journals and reviewing consolidated numbers to ensure accurate reporting. As you develop in the role, you will start to lead the close process to ensure adherence to our tight month end timetable.
With strong current IFRS knowledge and research skills, you will be confident in providing technical accounting support across the finance function. These skills will also be crucial in your role in preparing notes and support for the group annual report.
In this role, you will provide clear and timely information to auditors. Your experience of audit, either as an auditor or key contact will enable you to engage thoughtfully with audit testing, to give considered and complete responses, minimising follow up questions.
With support from the Group Finance Team you will quickly learn your way around our finance systems – Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close, People Soft Financials, IRIS Accounts Production and MI systems – and will rapidly become a lead user, supporting other finance teams to get the most out of our systems.
As part of our global financial reporting you will take ownership of a number of UK and overseas corporate companies, approving month end journals, overseeing financial statements for the UK companies and liaising with overseas advisors for the preparation of overseas financial statements. Your relationship building skills will enable you to influence those professional advisors to provide high quality financial statements and meet local statutory reporting deadlines.
Qualifications

• Excellent technical accounting skills, both strong current IFRS knowledge and research skills
• Good understanding of multinational consolidation
• Able to rapidly build understanding of finance systems
• Commitment to excellent financial control
• Experience of audit – either as an auditor or as a key audit contact
• A proactive, highly organised self-starter with the ability to prioritise and deliver to strict deadlines
• Tenacious with great attention to detail
• Flexible, collaborative and open approach
• Sole British national

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates,

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us.

We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

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