Group Senior Financial Accountant

Group Senior Financial Accountant

You will report to the Group Finance Manager and be indirectly responsible for the on-going training of two group financial accountants. You will also work closely with the regional finance team, group treasury, and group FP&A.

The Senior Group Financial Accountant supports the Group Financial Manager in delivering accurate consolidated financial information, that is compliant with all ATG Group finance policies and IFRS. You will be a technical accounting expert but also an effective business partner, able to support subsidiary finance teams in meeting their reporting requirements.

This role is based at our Woking Office, ultimately reporting to the Director of Group Reporting,

• Review and challenge monthly financial data submissions from regional teams and follow up queries through to resolution, ultimately providing a month end commentary on key movements.
• Business Partner to the regional finance teams across the ATG Entertainment group to support them in meeting Group policies and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate cross functionally with the relevant stakeholders to identify accounting impacts of operational initiatives, unusual transactions, new agreements & projects. Provide valuable insight that goes beyond just the journals posted into the accounts.
• Work with the rest of the group finance team to ensure that the monthly consolidation of c.130 entities are executed correctly. All intercompany balances are matched and reconciled and intra-group transactions eliminated; holding company postings and review; loan interest calculations and postings; group costs and recharges reconcile; IFRS
  16 journals are calculated and posted correctly.
• Understand and process quarterly derivative accounting entries.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet and cashflow reporting for distribution to the Board, investors, and banks.
• Participate in quarterly balance sheet reviews with subsidiary finance teams. Track agreed actions through to completion.
• Assist in the integration of new acquisitions onto the ATG finance platform, ensuring consistency in reporting and financial controls and processes.
• Become an expert user of our consolidation system - Microsoft Cognos Controller - to be able to maintain and develop the system to meet new requirements. Training and support will be provided.
• Contribute to the production of the annual statutory accounts of all UK subsidiaries (FRS
  101).
• Assist the Group Financial Manager in the production of the consolidated annual financial statements and report (IFRS).
• Calculate annual joint venture accounting adjustments for statutory accounts purposes.
• Be a key contact for the annual group audit, helping the Group Financial Manager to collate all audit evidence and manage auditor information requirements.
• Draft technical accounting memos on accounting judgements, unusual transactions, acquisitions, disposals, and debt refinances.
• Support the Group Financial Manager in ad hoc tasks and investigations, seeing these through individually to resolution.
• Identify risks and provide the appropriate solutions along with the ability to implement those solutions with the help of the wider finance team and business.

• ACA or equivalent qualified with experience working in a group finance function.
• Multi-currency complex consolidation experience.
• Technically minded, with a good understanding of IFRS.
• Strong systems skills in all MS Office applications, with advanced Excel.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Experience working with consolidation and reporting systems;
  Cognos Controller preferred but not required.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to successfully operate in a fast-paced environment…