Financial Accountant

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Gatwick

As a Financial Accountant, you'll play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity and compliance of financial reporting across the Group. Working across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, you'll help deliver high-quality financial information that informs business decision-making, regulatory compliance and effective financial governance.

This is a hands-on role where you'll apply your technical accounting expertise across financial reporting, statutory compliance, tax and financial controls. You'll work closely with colleagues across the business, as well as auditors, advisers and international finance teams, helping to resolve complex accounting issues, maintain robust governance frameworks and drive continuous improvement in financial processes and reporting.

• Preparing accurate monthly and annual financial reporting for UK entities, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements
• Building effective relationships with auditors, advisers, regulators and finance stakeholders to support reporting, assurance and compliance activities
• Producing Group consolidations and multi-currency reporting, resolving complex accounting issues and ensuring consistency across international entities
• Providing technical accounting guidance on the application of accounting standards, policies and regulatory requirements
• Supporting the delivery of statutory, regulatory and tax compliance obligations across UK and international operations
• Identifying opportunities to improve financial processes, systems and controls, enhancing efficiency and the quality of financial information across the Group
• Contributing to treasury and cash management activities while maintaining strong financial governance and control standards

• A professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or equivalent
• Strong technical accounting knowledge, including statutory reporting, financial governance and financial controls
• Experience using ERP systems and reporting tools to produce, evaluate and interpret financial information
• Knowledge of UK and international financial reporting requirements, including FRS
  102, IFRS and statutory accounting obligations
• Experience of group reporting, financial consolidations and working within a multi-entity environment
• Knowledge of UK and international tax requirements, including corporate tax, indirect taxes and transfer pricing principles
• The ability to interpret complex financial information and apply sound professional judgement to resolve accounting issues and advise stakeholders

• Generous annual leave –25 days plus standard England and Wales bank holidays for full-time employees
• Long service holiday reward – Receive an extra day's annual leave for each year of service after six years, up to a maximum of 30 days plus bank holidays for full-time colleagues
• Christmas office closure – Enjoy additional paid leave between Christmas Day and New Year's Day to cover discretionary office closure days
• Holiday purchase scheme – Buy up to three additional days' annual leave each year and spread the cost over up to six months
• Me Day – Take an additional paid day off to celebrate your birthday, a cultural or religious event, or another occasion that is meaningful to you
• Volunteering day – One paid day each year to support a charity, community group or cause close to your heart
• Hybrid and agile working – Flexible ways of working to help you balance work and life commitments (role dependent)
• Enhanced pension contributions – Benefit from employer pension contributions above the statutory minimum
• Life assurance – Providing financial…