Title: Group Accountant
Salary: £70k
Location: Central London – 2 days per week
Ref: WP13643
Finatal is working with a 75m turnover privately-owned AI company who are looking for a Group Accountant to join their team. You will have overall responsibility for the accounting and financial reporting in the Group. You will be an important contributor on both administrative and operational matters related to the Group accounts.
Responsibilities:
* Gathering the accounting data from Group entities monthly, ensuring the group reporting deadlines are clearly communicated and met. Ensuring the local data is complete, consistently reported and mapped to the Group chart of accounts to allow meaningful analysis and comparison.
* Managing the monthly intercompany reconciliation process, investigating and resolving differences between the various entities.
* Supporting consolidated revenue reporting, ensure monthly reported numbers are reconciled across the Group.
* Supporting the establishment and implementation of Group accounting, reporting and control policies across the Group, ensuring their consistent application across all subsidiaries (e.g. revenue and cost recognition, foreign exchange transactions, activity-based costing etc.)
* Assisting with external audits and coordination of information.
* Quarterly covenant checks and other compliance reporting.
* Support budget and forecast process, monitoring spend vs budget and understanding variances.
* Doing ad-hoc reviews on different areas of spend depending on business needs.
* Getting involved in the accounting of certain key areas such as investments, leases and hedging
* Monitor cash flow to ensure we can meet the business requirements and utilise funds in the most efficient manner.
* Be involved and support the implementation of new reporting related systems across the Group.
Requirements:
* Fully qualified accountant (ACA/ ACCA/ CIMA)
* Strong technical skills and experience with UK GAAP, FRS 102 and IFRS standards
* Strong excel skills, experience with data manipulation and wrangling
* Be meticulous, thorough, and able to spot discrepancies
* Exceptional communication skills, report writing and presentation skills and be able to communicate to a range of people including non-finance and also in other countries
* The position will work across an international footprint and will therefore need to work closely with individuals from various cultures and backgrounds so foreign languages skills would be an advantage to the role