Group Accountant

• Salary: £65,000- £70,000 DOE
• Full Time
• Permanent

Sub Sea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.

• Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing Day
  - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
• Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
• Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
• Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to Linked In Learning.
• Pension Contribution – pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice
• Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work–life balance.
• Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.

The Group Accountant will play a key role in the financial reporting, consolidation, tax & treasury, and control of a growing international group operating across four countries. The role is responsible for ensuring accurate group reporting, compliance with local and international tax regulations & accounting standards, and supporting senior finance leadership with insight, analysis, and process improvement.

• Group Reporting & Consolidation
  - Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual group consolidated financial statements
• Tax and Treasury
  - Prepare and maintain Transfer Pricing policies and documentation
• Statutory Accounting & Compliance
  - Support local Finance Leads with statutory accounting and audits
• Intercompany & Controls
  - Ensure intercompany balances are agreed and differences resolved promptly
• Process Improvement & Systems
  - Drive continuous improvement in group reporting processes
• Stakeholder Support
  - Work closely with local finance teams in each country

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
• Strong demonstrable experience in global tax and treasury
• Solid knowledge of IFRS (or group-adopted accounting standards)
• Strong attention to detail and analytical mindset
  
  Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage competing priorities
• Advanced Excel skills
• Demonstrable experience working with multi-entity, multi-currency environments
• Strong demonstrable experience in group accounting and consolidation

Note:

Due to the nature of work undertaken at Sub Sea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), with UK National security clearance required for certain roles.*

Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.

• Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
• Initiative and independent working
• Honesty and integrity
• Business and commercial awareness
• Agility, adaptability and…