Financial Accountant

Role Overview:

• Fully qualified (ACA/ACCA or equivalent) financial accountant responsible for supporting month-end processes and process improvement within the Group.
• This role will contribute to technical accounting topics for transactions (M&A, IFRS 16, group restructuring) and support delivery of year end statutory reporting including liaising with auditors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the month-end and year-end consolidation process in conjunction with the Group Reporting Manager, ensuring improvement are made continually and all consolidation entries are fully understood and documented
• Support the preparation of Group consolidated monthly management accounts and analysis (for inclusion in CFO Report and Lender's Pack)
• Ownership of accounting for central holding entities
• Robust balance sheet reviews of trading entities, ensuring "no surprises"
• Ownership of Group-level reconciliations of investments in subsidiaries, goodwill, acquired intangibles, right of use assets, leases and all equity balances (monthly or quarterly as appropriate)
• Support the Group budgeting and re-forecasting process, with particular focus on Group working capital and Group cash flow statement and review of OpCo submissions
• Work closely with the team to ensure consolidation system (Pigment) is fit for purpose at all times with appropriate reports in place
• Developing, and monitoring financial controls, driving efficiency and effectiveness; reviewing processes such as O2C, P2P and R2R on a regular basis
• Preparation of sections of Group Annual Report (under IFRS)
• Preparation of subsidiary accounts (under FRS101)
• Support the accounting and integration of acquisitions
• Preparation of technical papers as and when required
• Involvement in change processes across the finance function (e.g. new consolidation and reporting tool roll out) as required

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