Group Financial Accountant

Overview

In this role you will support the group’s IFRS reporting and consolidation processes within a fast-paced, acquisitive business. You will work closely with finance teams across the organization to deliver accurate group reporting, statutory accounts, and post-acquisition integration. This is ideal for a newly qualified ACA/ACCA moving from practice into industry, offering broad exposure to consolidation, internal controls, and senior stakeholder engagement. You will contribute to process improvements and provide insights through ad hoc analysis, shaping the group’s financial reporting capabilities.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangement
• Bonus potential
• Private healthcare or wellness allowance
• Enhanced pension and life assurance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Ongoing professional development support

Responsibilities

• Support monthly group consolidations under IFRS with multi-currency reporting and intercompany reconciliations
• Assist monthly close activities and management reporting packs
• Support statutory reporting under IFRS and UK GAAP
• Assist with external audit processes, tax and VAT reporting requirements
• Partner with finance teams across the business to support reporting submissions and resolve technical accounting queries
• Contribute to ongoing improvements of financial controls, processes and reporting frameworks
• Assist with acquisition accounting and post-acquisition integration activities
• Deliver ad hoc analysis and project work for senior finance stakeholders

Key requirements

• Qualified ACA or ACCA
• Practice-trained background, ideally from a Top 20 firm
• Strong grounding in IFRS and UK GAAP
• Experience auditing multi-entity groups and consolidated financial statements
• Advanced Excel skills and strong financial analysis capability
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage competing deadlines
• Strong communication skills with the confidence to work across multiple stakeholders and finance teams
• Proactive, adaptable and keen to develop within a growing business environment

• Strong communication
• Attention to detail
• Ability to manage deadlines
• IFRS
• UK GAAP
• Group consolidations

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