Group Financial Accountant
6 Month Fixed Term Contract
Borehamwood
£75,000 - £85,000
Two days in the office
Group Financial Accountant ( ACA) required for a company experiencing rapid and ambitious growth in Borehamwood. The Group Financial Accountant will be responsible for all aspects of group reporting, including playing a lead role in the annual audit process and managing the small treasury function. You will be an integral member of the group's finance team, working closely with the Group Financial Controller, Group Management Accountant and CFO at the group's head office in Borehamwood.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Preparing the monthly consolidation pack
- Producing monthly balance sheet reconciliations for the group and being the key contact person for all balance sheet related queries and analyses
- Responsible for the group accounting of lease liabilities and all interest costs, as well as the group's consolidation journals
- Managing the treasury clerk
- Preparing weekly group cash flow forecasts
- Accounting for/processing of transactions in the group's 5 main holding companies
- Producing the statutory accounts for 45 entities across the UK (the group's year end is June)
- Working with the Group Financial Controller to ensure monthly, quarterly and yearly deadlines are achieved
- Ensuring delivery of high quality and accurate monthly financial information for the Senior Management Team, including balance sheets, cash flow statements and working capital analyses
- Identifying new accounting standards and working with the business to ensure continued compliance
- Preparing well-written accounting technical papers, for example papers which document any corporate activity undertaken and papers which support subjective accounting judgements made
- Assisting the group finance team with the development and evolution of group wide controls, systems and processes
- Supporting the Group Financial Controller with the external audit process
- Liaising with and managing the relationship with the auditors
Qualifications and experience
- Qualified ACA
- Technically strong
- 'Big 4' trained
- Experience working with complex consolidations
- Ability to deliver with exceptional levels of accuracy and has fanatical attention to detail
- Self-motivated, able to work under pressure and driven to succeed
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral
- Excellent IT skills, including Excel, and the ability to learn new IT systems and processes