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SalaryAre you a finance professional with a passion for precision and a knack for numbers? We are recruiting a dedicated Group Accountant to become a pivotal part of our finance team.
Working closely with the Group Finance Manager, you will play a crucial role in delivering accurate and timely financial information Your expertise will be instrumental in driving reporting and insights, supporting our cyclical timetable to ensure collaboration with key stakeholders and contributing to the overall financial health of our company.
Key responsibilities include:
Key responsibilities include:
- Ensuring accuracy and maintenance of group balance sheet and reconciliations, identify and manage areas of risk and opportunity
- Supporting forecasting and consolidation of short and long term cashflow
- Providing delivery of accurate and timely tax returns
- Supporting production of cyclical balance sheet and cashflow consolidations.
- Assisting development of efficiencies within processes and continuous improvement of transactional accounting within the Group.
- Supporting production of individual entity statutory accounts and group consolidated working capital accounts.
- Ensuring compliance with changing regulations and drive areas of improvement.
- Supporting audit with Group Finance Manager where required. Understand and translate any issues to explain the technical accounting treatment based on respective judgements.
- Assisting with the production of monthly management accounts for certain cost base areas.
On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:
- A competitive starting salary plus up to 10% Annual Bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata for part time), plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
- An excellent pension and Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years
The ideal Group Accountant will be/have:
- Qualified or working towards ACA, CIMA, ACCA.
- Proven record of working in a Finance Team with exposure to operations (preferably at Group Level) & working to tight deadlines.
- Ability to support understanding of company Balance Sheet, Cashflow activity & Statutory Accounts.
- Understanding of forecasting and budgeting within balance sheet and cashflow environment (preferably at group level)..
- Exposure to either sales, supply chain or central functions cost bases would be plus.
- Ability to work across Matrix reporting environment.
- Sound understanding of Microsoft Office Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ability to deal with large data volumes. Organise, analyse and present information from various sources in a clear and concise manner.
- Good team player & sound communication skills
- Attention to detail (inquisitive in nature)
- System savvy with good working understanding of ERP systems.
