Group Accountant

Group Accountant

Salary: £47,300 - £63,350 (depending on experience)

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid

Contract: Permanent/Full time

As our next Group Accountant, you will be responsible for the delivery of high-quality financial information for management and external reporting purposes. You will work on a varied portfolio of reporting engagements including cross-functional projects working alongside colleagues from other teams in both the UK and overseas.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

A highly collaborative role where you will be empowered to manage projects from start to finish, you will be a key stakeholder within the finance function for a range of our business decisions. Contributing to month end financial reporting, annual reviews of UK and overseas entities, investigations into any significant variances of the actuals compared to budget, forecast and prior year, this role definitely comes with variety.

Project management is a large part of this role alongside the day-to-day financial tasks. Half of the projects we work on we know are coming, and the other half come to fruition from business need, so you will need to be able to adapt your priorities.

You will be involved in the review and analysis of complex financial reporting matters in order to provide the senior management team with the technical input required during decision making, as well as helping to improve the knowledge of peers with regards to financial reporting standards and best practice.

The core activities of the Group Accountant are as follows:

• Preparation of Monthly consolidated management accounts, ensuring compliance with FRS 102 accounting standards and the Group's Accounting Manual;
• Delivery of the year-end external audits for CUPA Group and the Group's UK subsidiaries;
• Development and enhancement of the Group's consolidation system SAP-BPC;
• Monitoring and improvement of various aspects of internal reporting from the Group's broad network of branches and subsidiaries;
• Provision of technical advice and reporting assistance to key stakeholders; and
• Delivery of ad-hoc projects with a view to improving the accuracy and quality of financial information across the Group.

About you

 You will be ACA/ACCA/CIMA/overseas equivalent qualified, with extensive post qualification experience. You will have strong experience with FRS 102 or IFRS and be comfortable with key accounting concepts such as accruals, provisions and impairment; in particular, as well as be comfortable with financial consolidation.

This role is suited to individuals who display the following qualities:

• A naturally analytical and logical mind set, who is focused on both solving the issue at hand and producing an efficient, repeatable process for tackling the issue in future;
• Effective collaborator able to tailor communication to the audience and work with both finance and non-finance colleagues;
• Precise communicator with personal presence and a clear written communication style;
• Strengths in planning projects and prioritisation of a broad workload.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Monday 8 April 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place during week commencing 15 April 2024.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

 Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.