Group Financial Accountant

Consultancy.uk; Melbourn; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

25 days leave + 0.5 day Christmas Eve

Pension scheme

Community involvement

Annual bonus

Share ownership

Bike to work

Job summary

PA Consulting is seeking a Group Accountant to join the Group Accounting Team in Melbourn. The role covers monthly group consolidation, journals, and close processes, with IFRS expertise and audit collaboration.

You will work hybrid, two days in the office, and support overseas entities while developing internal controls and statutory reporting. Ideal candidates are ACA/CA/ACCA qualified with strong IFRS knowledge, experience in multinational consolidation, and aptitude for learning finance

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/CA/ACCA credentials.
• Strong IFRS knowledge and ability to research complex topics.
• Experience with multinational consolidation and audits.
• Proven ability to learn finance systems quickly.
• Commitment to excellent financial control.
• Experience of audit—as auditor or key contact.
• Organised, proactive self-starter who meets deadlines.
• Attention to detail with clear communication.
• Flexible, collaborative approach; team player.

Responsibilities

• Assist with monthly group consolidation and journals.
• Review consolidated numbers for accuracy and timeliness.
• Lead close process to meet month-end deadlines.
• Provide technical accounting support across finance functions.
• Prepare notes and adjustments for the annual report.
• Coordinate with auditors and respond to requests.
• Learn and utilise Oracle, PeopleSoft, IRIS and MI systems.
• Take ownership of UK and overseas company month ends.
• Build relationships with overseas advisors for statutory statements.

Skills

Technical accounting

Multinational consolidation

Audit experience

Finance systems

Financial control

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Collaboration

Time management

British nationality

Education

ACA / CA / ACCA

Tools

Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close

PeopleSoft Financials

IRIS Accounts Production

MI systems

Job description

Firm: PA Consulting

Location: Global Innovation and Technology Centre, Back Lane, Melbourn, Hertfordshire, SG8 6DP, United Kingdom

Full-time

Industry: Accounting

Benefits

• Competive

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Job Description

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week.

Join our Group Accounting Team to deliver timely and accurate financial reporting. Your experience of multinational consolidations, either from audit or industry, will enable you to hit the ground running. You will play an integral part of the team preparing the monthly group consolidation, raising consolidation journals and reviewing consolidated numbers to ensure accurate reporting. As you develop in the role, you will start to lead the close process to ensure adherence to our tight month end timetable.

With strong current IFRS knowledge and research skills, you will be confident in providing technical accounting support across the finance function. These skills will also be crucial in your role in preparing notes and support for the group annual report.

In this role, you will provide clear and timely information to auditors. Your experience of audit, either as an auditor or key contact will enable you to engage thoughtfully with audit testing, to give considered and complete responses, minimising follow up questions.

With support from the Group Finance Team you will quickly learn your way around our finance systems – Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close, PeopleSoft Financials, IRIS Accounts Production and MI systems – and will rapidly become a lead user, supporting other finance teams to get the most out of our systems.

As part of our global financial reporting you will take ownership of a number of UK and overseas corporate companies, approving month end journals, overseeing financial statements for the UK companies and liaising with overseas advisors for the preparation of overseas financial statements. Your relationship building skills will enable you to influence those professional advisors to provide high quality financial statements and meet local statutory reporting deadlines.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant – ACA / CA / ACCA
• Excellent technical accounting skills, both strong current IFRS knowledge and research skills
• Good understanding of multinational consolidation
• Able to rapidly build understanding of finance systems
• Commitment to excellent financial control
• Experience of audit – either as an auditor or as a key audit contact
• A proactive, highly organised self-starter with the ability to prioritise and deliver to strict deadlines
• Tenacious with great attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Flexible, collaborative and open approach
• Sole British national

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.

All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.

We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here .

Benefits

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

Firm: PA Consulting

Location: Melbourn, United Kingdom