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About the Business
An opportunity to be a Group Accountant for a global service business based in Birmingham City Centre, known for looking after their employees and having amazing growth potential. The company has recently experienced significant growth, with new additions to the finance team.
This role gives you a great chance to be part of a strong and growing finance team with responsibilities across the whole group. This role offers excellent additional benefits, making it ideal for someone looking to stay and grow within the same company.
Main Duties:
As a Group Accountant, your main duties include:
- Assist with the monthly group consolidation, ensuring all consolidation journals are accurately posted.
- Contribute to the preparation of consolidated monthly management accounts, including profit and loss, cash flow, working capital, and investment reporting, adhering to strict deadlines.
- Provide insights and financial analysis on performance, including budget variances, prior year comparisons, KPI trends, and regional ratio analysis.
- Offer support and constructive feedback to local operational finance teams.
- Participate in the annual budgeting and quarterly re-forecasting processes for the group consolidation.
- Assist local operational finance teams with financial planning and analysis.
- Support the external audit process for group holding companies and consolidation.
- Assist in preparing consolidated statutory financial statements for the group and statutory accounts for other group companies as needed.
- Collaborate with the Group Tax function to gather data for tax computations across the group.
- Support the Group Financial Controller in implementing and monitoring robust accounting policies and procedures in line with UK GAAP.
- Identify opportunities for improvement, investigate financial control risks, and share best practices across companies.
- Conduct detailed financial investigations at the request of senior finance management and support local finance teams.
- Assist the Group Financial Controller in establishing a strong financial control environment and effective corporate governance.
- Provide support on finance-related projects for the Group Financial Controller, including planning, reporting, control, systems, new business acquisitions, and corporate restructures.
Location / Office / Culture
The role is hybrid with 2/3 days in the office, the business is very flexible. The company operate from a modern office consisting of a strong team of 60+. The business is very flexible in its working patterns and due to the current ongoing growth offers great chances for progression.
What We Are Looking For
The ideal candidate will have:
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA Qualified - it would also suit a first time mover
- A commercially driven mindset
- Driving License
Why Join the business
- Personal private health
- Car allowance
- Fantastic managers - a number of which that have been promoted internally
- Flexible working in a modern environment
- A company with a track record of internal progression
- Generous holiday days
About Us
We are a local accountancy recruitment specialist. We appreciate that roles are often online for a long period of time. If you want to check if this role is still live or just want more details before applying, call us directly.
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