Group Financial Accountant
Leicester (hybrid working)
Bellrock Group are looking for an experienced Group Financial Accountant. Responsible for external reporting of the organisation and ensuring compliance with accounting standards and tax legislation. Day to day lead on the external audit, VAT & Tax matters. This role is a key part of the finance team, supporting the team on technical accounting matters and leading on technical accounting areas such as acquisition accounting.
Key responsibilities:
* Responsible for the preparation of group consolidated and individual companies’ financial statements for audit, working with the management accounting team.
* Responsible for ensuring all HMRC and foreign taxes are filed and paid on time. This includes but is not limited to; Corporation Tax, VAT, CIS, PSA, Social Security, Class 1A.
* Key day to day contact for the external audit.
* Accounting for senior debt and intercompany loans.
* Ensuring accounting and tax legislation is followed and adhered to.
* Implementing significant changes in accounting standards.
* Internal expert for accounting and tax queries from the wider finance team, leaning on external support where required. This includes accounting advice for projects.
* Assisting with the onboarding and integration of new acquisitions as required.
Skills & experience
* The ideal candidate will be ACA qualified accountant, trained in Practice with a top 10 firm.
* Technically strong, with experience of Group consolidations, acquisition accounting, tax and external audits.
* Enthusiastic, driven and self-motivated. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
* Confident and comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders.
* Reliability responsible and dependable. Take ownership of your work and the work of your team.
* Independence - able to manage own workload with minimum supervision.
* Team player works as part of a team to achieve a common goal.
* Attention to detail job requires being accurate in interpreting and challenging data.
Working arrangements
We embrace smarter working practices which offer our employees the opportunity to work their hours flexibly and remotely where their roles and business needs allow. In this role, the successful candidate would be required to work from the Leicester office two days per week whilst the rest can be worked remotely.
What can we offer you?
Upon joining Bellrock, you can expect a comprehensive benefits package including:
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 1 additional day as a thank you (enjoy it, it’s on us)
Salary exchange pension scheme
Life cover
Paid sick leave
Health Assured employee assistance and wellness program
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Salary sacrifice schemes: Cycle to work
Holiday purchase scheme of additional 5 days per year
Offers and discount scheme designed to save money on everyday shopping and essentials
Healthcare Cashplan
MotorSave Scheme
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Why Bellrock?
Our people are our passion, so we’re all about helping them to achieve their ambitions. That means putting everything in place for you to have a rewarding career with us. So you can go far in your career, with us behind you. And our business will grow, too. So, if you’re ready to start your career journey with Bellrock we’re ready to welcome you. It’s a great place to be.
We would like to attract talent from all corners of the world for this role. Or commitment is to an equitable recruitment process so feel free to apply in any way that suits you. We are looking for the right person, not necessarily just the right person for this role
Apply today.