Group Financial Reporting Accountant

SaB Consultancy; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

SaB Consultancy is seeking a Group Financial Reporting Lead for a growing Food, FMCG group in Wakefield. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in financial reporting and control processes under the Group CFO, ensuring consistency and reliability during growth phases. Ideal candidates should be fully qualified accountants with strong technical skills and industry or audit background.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years post-qualification experience in group reporting or consolidation.
• Industry experience or transition from practice.
• Strong IT skills, particularly with Excel.

Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate, timely consolidated monthly management accounts.
• Draft consolidated statutory accounts and coordinate audit deliverables.
• Support CFO with financial modeling and cash forecasting.

Skills

Technical accounting

Financial Reporting

Excel

Education

Qualified ACA/ACCA or CIMA

Tools

Consolidation software

ERP systems

Job description

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• Key Leadership role reporting to the Group CFO and Senior Management Team.
• Growing Food, FMCG Group of Companies.
• Acquisitive and Organic Growth Strategy.
• Qualified ACA/ACCA or CIMA strong technical accounting background.
• Industry experience or Manager/Senior Audit individual looking for, 1st Move into Industry.

The Company

SaB Consultancy are delighted to be exclusively recruiting a Group Financial Reporting Lead role to join a growing, Food, FMCG group of companies based in West Yorkshire. With an impressive track record of growth, the business has a true global footprint and is a market leader in its field of speciality. Reporting to the Group CFO this role is an integral part of the senior leadership team, playing a key supporting role in the delivery of accurate and timely consolidated financial reporting for the wider Group.

The Role

Reporting to the Group CFO and working closely with finance leads across each business unit (BU), the role focuses on technical accounting, reporting consistency, and control processes across the group. The position helps ensure a reliable and scalable financial reporting framework during a period of growth and potential acquisition activity.

Responsibilities

• Prepare accurate, timely consolidated monthly management accounts for the group in line with set timelines and formats, and relevant accounting standards.
• Maintain the group reporting timetable, coordinating periodic inputs from BU finance teams and ensuring adherence.
• Assist the CFO in preparing board-level analysis and commentary.
• Draft consolidated statutory accounts for review by the CFO and auditors.
• Coordinate audit deliverables across group entities; responding to audit queries.
• Plan timescales and coordinate group budgets and rolling forecasts, using inputs from each BU.
• Assist the CFO with financial modelling and scenario analysis.
• Consolidate and analyse short- and medium-term group cash forecasts.
• Support the development of improved cash forecasting templates and reporting standards.
• Identify cash flow trends and help flag potential risks or working capital pressure points within the group.
• Maintain and offer development to group financial control standards, reporting formats, and reconciliation standards.
• Ensure intercompany balances are reviewed and eliminated appropriately.
• Support continuous improvements to reporting tools and processes.
• Work with the CFO to develop more scalable financial reporting and consolidation in the group.
• Provide support for integration of accounting, reporting and control processes of newly acquired business.
• Liaise regularly with BU finance leads to support group-level consolidation and compliance.
• Promote consistent application of accounting policies across the group where relevant.

Candidate profile

Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA (Industry background OR First-time mover from practice). You will possess 3–5 years post-qualification experience, ideally with group reporting or consolidation exposure considering ideally FRS102. You will demonstrate strong IT skills and be proficient in the use of Excel, familiarity with consolidation software or ERP systems preferred.

Attributes

• Technically strong accountant with an ability to demonstrate an eye for accuracy and process.
• Communicate clearly with peers across entities and with external stakeholders.
• Structured and organised, with an ability to prioritise tasks across multiple deadlines.
• Calm, proactive, and reliable under pressure.
• Professional and commercially aware, with interest in how the numbers support business performance and willingness to develop these.
• Willingness for continuous personal development.
• Comfortable working within a collaborative, non-hierarchical finance structure.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Accounting

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