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Job Description
An excellent opportunity to join a specialist professional services and technology firm, working in partnership with leading insurance, highly regulated and global businesses has arisen.
Due to exponential growth, my client is looking for a Group Financial Accountant to join the Group Finance Team. The individual will take an active role in all aspects of the Group’s financial accounting agenda with a particular focus on consolidation, cashflow and working capital.
Responsibilities include:
The ideal profile
Due to exponential growth, my client is looking for a Group Financial Accountant to join the Group Finance Team. The individual will take an active role in all aspects of the Group’s financial accounting agenda with a particular focus on consolidation, cashflow and working capital.
Responsibilities include:
- Ownership of the final monthly consolidation outputs
- Preparation of the group consolidations on the Planful system (internal consolidation system) which includes
- Reviewing validation checks and intercompany reports, liaising with subsidiaries and divisions to clear errors and differences, preparing and posting consolidation journals
- Integrating changes in group structure into the consolidation
- Liaising with the Acquisitions accountant and the M&A team on a regular basis to ensure acquisitions are consolidated correctly
- Finalisation of the Group consolidations
- Process improvements for the group consolidation system
- Acting as Planful liaison for the rest of the group and with the external Planful support team
- Preparation of monthly cashflows
- Ownership of Group Fixed assets reporting
- Assistance in Internal Group services reporting
- Ad hoc tasks to assist the Director, Group Finance and other members of the wider Finance function.
The ideal profile
- Qualified accountant with excellent working knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS and minimum 2 year PQE
- Prior experience of preparing group statutory accounts and monthly management accounts
- Prior experience of performing large multicurrency consolidations
- Good IT literacy, including MS applications.
- Working knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS
- Ability to understand and work with multiple companies and business divisions
- A curious mind and a dedicated approach to work with a willingness to recommend and implement improvements to the processes
- Ability to work under pressure, excellent time management skills and ability to meet agreed deadlines in a fast-moving environment
- Pride in one’s work
- Good IT literacy, including MS applications. Sage and SAP Business Objects would be an advantage