Senior Financial Accountant

Senior Financial Accountant
Are you a seasoned and certified accountant ready to elevate your career?
PIB Group is actively searching for a Senior Financial Accountant to join our accomplished Finance team in London. In this pivotal role, as a Senior Financial Accountant, you will support on critical projects and make significant contributions to the success of our financial reporting team, especially during the year-end season. If you are a diligent and passionate finance expert with a talent for tackling challenges and a dedication to ongoing enhancement, we are eager to receive your application.
At PIB Group, we embrace a hybrid working model that offers a balance between onsite and remote working days.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Financial Accountant at PIB Group, your responsibilities will include:

• Managing several key projects within the financial reporting team.
• Collaborating on the review of foreign exchange accounting across the Group.
• Working closely with the external audit team during year-end responsibilities and control environment assessments.
• Contributing to the production of the monthly Group Consolidation.
• Preparing and reviewing technical papers for the year-end audit.
• Ensuring the Group's acquisition accounting adheres to IFRS 3 standards.
• Preparing and reviewing the Group's financial statements and supporting notes.
• Reviewing the financial statements of the Group's UK subsidiary companies.
• Providing support to local and international financial teams for accounting queries.
• Assisting the Process & Controls Manager in overseeing the close manager process and meeting flash deadlines.
• Collaborating on the planned OneStream system implementation, including testing and process documentation.
• Working collaboratively with the Financial Control management team to deliver a comprehensive business service.

Experience:

• Qualified CCAB, ACCA, or ACA.
• Extensive experience in a central finance function with international elements.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering monthly financial information.
• Group finance experience within a complex group, preferably in the financial services industry (desirable).
• Experience operating across multiple financial service/group requirements.
• Proficiency in Excel, including data manipulation from multiple sources.
• Familiarity with Oracle NetSuite.
• Foreign language skills at a conversational level (desirable).
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across stakeholders.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.
• A positive, collaborative, and enthusiastic approach to work.
• Strong problem-solving abilities.
• Commitment to continuous improvement.
• Meticulous attention to detail.

Further information: -
As well as a competitive salary we offer the following benefits -

• Competitive holiday allowance with the annual option to buy additional days
• Death in Service benefit of x4 salary
• Company pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave packages
• A flexible benefits package which allows you to add additional benefits to your overall package
• Our benefits portal offers discounts on technology & electronics, cinemas, restaurants, days out, mortgage advice, travel and many more
• Referral schemes
• Discounted rates on PIB products
• We offer a first-class employee benefits and welfare package to support our employees with financial management, cycle to work scheme, counselling support, health screening, will writing, menopause support, books, stopping smoking and much more
• If supporting the local community, engaging with charities and having the opportunity to ‘give something back’ interests you, you have the opportunity to take an extra day to support this with a Volunteering day.
• We also offer a wide range of discounts including a kids pass – giving you discount to over 4500 attractions and activities, discounts at hairdressers and beauticians, climate change projects with lots of other options to choose
• PIB has a comprehensive learning & development framework, including professional study options and apprenticeships which are available to all employees, and which will support your career development
• Being a part of our PIB Community Trust, we support fundraising where you can apply for grants from PIB Group towards your chosen charity
• PIB Group are committed to improving their environmental impact in a responsible way. From the individual actions that our colleagues take every day through to installing the right facilities across our premises, there are many measures in place to help reduce PIB’s carbon footprint.

We are proud of our success and growth and have been recognised for many industry awards across our business. If you wish to work for a company that truly puts people at the heart of their organisation, then we would love to hear from you. PIB operates a flexible working policy, and our management teams will talk to you about how that would meet both your flexible working needs and those of the business and role you are applying for. We would love to hear from you if you want to hear more about opportunities in PIB.
We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse and inclusive workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, gender, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law
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