Business Accountant Leeds | Fast-Paced, Growing, and Commercially Engaging Environment A fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced and tangibly interesting business in the capacity of Business Accountant. This broad and highly visible role offers exposure across group functions, supporting projects spanning statutory accounting, M&A and acquisition activity, debt and hedging, intercompany transactions, subsidiary consolidations, and much more. It's a genuinely engaging environment where you'll interact with senior stakeholders across both internal and external audiences, including Private Equity investors. Key Responsibilities: Play a key role in the month-end close process, including preparing and attending close meetings. Support a range of high-impact projects including refinancing, M&A, acquisition due diligence, impairment testing, and changes to capital structure. Deliver insightful financial analysis in partnership with operational finance and business stakeholders. Conduct balance sheet reviews of acquired businesses, supporting valuation testing, forecasting, and post-deal performance tracking. Prepare quarterly financial reporting packs for Private Equity investors. Champion digital tools and automation to streamline processes and enhance commercial decision-making. About You: We're looking for a qualified ACA, ACCA or ACMA with a sharp, inquisitive mindset and the confidence to work in a dynamic and evolving environment. You'll be commercially astute, detail-oriented, and eager to broaden your experience across projects and group-level initiatives. This role offers genuine career acceleration - whether your future pathway leads toward commercial finance, business partnering or financial controllership. This role is being shortlisted immediately and will be interviewing over the next 2 weeks. Please get in touch with Gifford and Partners to gain a better understanding as to why this role offers so much. Business Partnering, stakeholder engagement, Private Equity exposure, project work, digital automation and embracing advanced tools to support commercial decision making. A rare chance to gain a super amount of exposure with senior stakeholders internally and externally.