Group Accountant

Allegis Group; Bracknell; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Group Accountant to join their dynamic team in Bracknell. This role involves preparing statutory accounts for multiple entities and facilitating audits across EMEA. The ideal candidate will be proactive and eager to learn, with a strong foundation in financial reporting and external audits. You'll collaborate with various departments, ensuring compliance with local GAAP and IFRS standards. This position offers a fantastic opportunity for professional growth within a supportive environment that values continuous development and training.

Qualifications

• Part Qualified with ACCA/ACA/CIMA, keen on learning.
• Experience in audit and financial reporting is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate external audits and prepare financial statements.
• Liaise with accountants to meet submission deadlines.
• Support month-end processes and ad-hoc financial analysis.

Skills

External Audit Knowledge

MS Office Suite Proficiency

Excel Data Analysis

Recruitment Experience

Financial Consolidation Experience

Multi-Currency Experience

IFRS Knowledge

UK GAAP Knowledge

Education

Part Qualified (finalist) with ACCA / ACA / CIMA

Tools

Excel

Job description

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About the Company

Allegis Group is a multi-branded specialist in providing tailored staffing solutions to market leading clients. As the largest privately-owned staffing company globally, we consistently outperform our competitors and continuously deliver on our promises. With staffing at the core of what we know best, we understand how important people are to any business, therefore at Allegis Group we invest in the training and development of our people, offering continuous opportunity to those who earn the right. Our goal is to become the staffing and services company others aspire to be.

About the Role

The Group Accountant will contribute towards the preparation and submission of the statutory accounts for all 20+ entities across multiple jurisdictions within EMEA whilst facilitating the interim and year-end audits. The Group Accountant will also support the month-end process to ensure that we report to our U.S counterparts accurately and within the designated timeframes. The successful candidate will be a professional with an incredible attitude to learning and personal development and has a proven record being ambitious and proactive.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with the various departments, for the external audit. Provide the auditors any deliverables required for them to complete their audit fieldwork and if recommendations are made, incorporate these into the day-to-day activities of the management accountants
• Prepare and submit FRS101 financial statements for all the UK entities within the filing deadlines, including assisting with the Group consolidated financial statements.
• Liaise with external accountants to ensure all non-UK financial statements submission deadlines are met and within their local GAAP requirements
• Review the monthly intercompany differences and revenue/expense eliminations checks.
• Supporting our US counterparts with annual audit related financials.
• Calculate and post the quarterly interest on intercompany balances
• Support the bid team with any requests that they have in relation to bids as well as creating and maintaining the share point
• Liaise with the Sustainability Reporting Specialist to assist with financials for sustainability reporting, such as SECR.
• Maintaining thresholds checklist for all financial reporting.
• Ad hoc financial analysis and investigative tasks
• Carrying out of such ad-hoc tasks as required by the Group Statutory Reporting Manager and/or Financial Controller/Director

Qualifications

Part Qualified (finalist) with ACCA / ACA / CIMA

Required Skills

• Knowledge of external audit / experience in audit within Practice is desirable
• Fully PC literate with the ability to use the MS suite
• Aptitude for continual learning and development with different systems, applications and multiple software packages
• Ability to use IT packages, mainly Excel to analyse and manipulate data
• Previous recruitment or similar industry background is desirable
• Previous experience of FCCS (Financial consolidation and close) is desirable
• Experience of multi-currency
• Knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP

Required Behaviors

• Highly organised, attentive and solution orientated
• High level of attention to detail
• Active listening skills and strong communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritise workload and meet deadlines
• Process driven
• High level of numeric and analytic ability
• Capable of working competently with diverse groups of people, data and processes accommodating an everchanging environment.
• Confidently interfaces with all levels of staff internally and externally
• Personally accountable
• Continuous learner, seeks growth and improvement
• High character and work ethic and is a role model for others

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing, Administrative, and Finance

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Financial Services

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