Group Financial Accountant

Group Financial Accountant focuses on preparing and consolidate monthly group management accounts, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery to external parties.

What the role involves

• Preparing and consolidate monthly group management accounts, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery to external parties.
• Maintaining and reconcile intercompany balances, ensuring correct processing of elimination entries during consolidation.
• Take full ownership of IFRS 16 accounting and reporting.
• Leading the preparation of statutory accounts for all group entities under FRS 102, including documentation of accounting treatments.
• Provide insightful financial analysis and commentary on group performance to senior leadership.
• Preparing and submit VAT returns for all entities and act as the main point of contact for VAT-related queries.

Skills and requirements

• Joining a dynamic and fast-paced retail group with over 40 years of experience in the toy industry, you will play a pivotal role within the finance function.
• Strong technical working knowledge of IFRS16.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience working with business stakeholders and external parties.

Candidate fit

• technical finance knowledge, accuracy, reporting discipline, and careful judgement

Additional role context

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with non-finance stakeholders and ability to communicate financial information clearly to senior leadership.