Interim group financial accountant role

3-6 month interim role requires a qualified accountant with strong IFRS technical background


Position Summary

The Group Financial Accountant role represents the opportunity to join the Group Finance team and gain broad exposure across group financial accounting, tax, treasury and systems. This role offers valuable experience to a technically astute individual with experience of complex consolidations and IFRS technical accounting. This role also offers the possibility to get involved in the more commercial aspects of finance, including providing insight on central costs and group performance, whilst working within a motivated and up-beat team

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the group's month-end process and ensuring all activities completed across the group as required for a timely and accurate monthly close

• Maintaining the underlying financial records for the companies within the holding stack, ensuring that the Effective Interest Rate models for borrowings are appropriately updated
• Assisting with running monthly actuals reviews and quarterly accounting reviews across the group, in addition to other cyclical and ad-hoc internal control reviews
• Acting as a key contact for external auditors, providing consolidation information and dealing with any queries
• Acting as a key user and owner of the Group's consolidation reporting system Onestream
• Identifying process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness

• Calculation of the required consolidation entries and entry into the Group's consolidation system Onestream, ensuring all positions are fully reconciled and understood
• Owning the central cost recharge process, ensuring that central department costs are appropriately recharged across the group
• Providing insight and reporting on variances in central costs by partnering with cost centre owners and site finance as required
• Assisting with the Purchase Price Accounting in relation to new acquisitions
• Supporting the preparation of corporate tax provisions, external filings and ongoing UK & US tax projects by liaising with the external tax providers
• Assisting with the preparation of the month end narrative pack for distribution to the Senior Leadership and the Board
• Supporting the production of the Group's quarterly & annual reporting in line with lender requirements
• Supporting the production of statutory IFRS consolidated accounts and UK GAAP (FRS 101 & FRS 102) individual accounts for required entities in an accurate, compliant and timely manner
• Providing technical analysis and advice across a range of topics (revenue recognition, provisioning, business combinations and similar) in response to ad-hoc queries and to support larger projects

People:

• Partnering with group treasury and the site finance teams (controllers, accounting & FP&A), in addition to the broader business including legal, business development, PMO, IT and HR departments
• Working closely with the external audit and tax providers as required
  

Technical experience:

• Graduate qualified accountant with strong IFRS technical background (1-2 years post-qual preferred)
• Considerable experience owning the preparation or audit of consolidations
• Demonstrable skill at providing technical IFRS accounting advice
• Hands-on tax experience is an asset
• Adept at stakeholder management and communication (both written and verbal)
• Experience within / auditing private-equity backed businesses is desirable
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of the commercial aspects of the business; experience of the Aerospace industry is desirable
  

Behavioural competencies:

• We are seeking a candidate who is both technically and commercially able to take on the role, but equally important is the ability to fit within a fast moving, demanding, complex and constantly evolving business

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Charles Maidment from the Bristol office for Hays. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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