Group Senior Financial Accountant

ATG Entertainment; Woking; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ATG Entertainment is seeking a Group Senior Financial Accountant to lead the monthly consolidation across ~130 entities from our Woking office, reporting to the Group Finance Manager. You will partner with regional teams, support IFRS reporting, and enhance the consolidation process with Cognos Controller.

The role requires ACA or equivalent, strong IFRS knowledge, and multi-currency consolidation experience. You will also contribute to statutory accounts and audits, while mentoring junior staff.

Qualifications

• ACA or equivalent qualified with experience in a group finance function.
• Multi-currency complex consolidation experience.
• Strong IFRS knowledge.
• Advanced Excel and MS Office skills.
• Experience with consolidation and reporting systems; Cognos Controller preferred but not required.
• Clear written and spoken communication.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to problem solve and implement solutions with finance team.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly consolidation of ~130 entities and ensure intercompany balances are reconciled.
• Business partner to regional finance teams to ensure policy compliance.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet and cashflow reporting for Board, investors, and banks.
• Assist integration of new acquisitions onto the finance platform.
• Develop technical accounting memos on judgments and transactions.
• Support annual statutory accounts and group audit.
• Use Cognos Controller to maintain and develop consolidation system.

Skills

IFRS knowledge

Advanced Excel

Consolidation experience

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

ACA or equivalent

Tools

Cognos Controller

MS Office

Job description

Group Senior Financial Accountant

You will report to the Group Finance Manager and be indirectly responsible for the on-going training of two group financial accountants. You will also work closely with the regional finance team, group treasury, and group FP&A.

The Senior Group Financial Accountant supports the Group Financial Manager in delivering accurate consolidated financial information, that is compliant with all ATG Group finance policies and IFRS. You will be a technical accounting expert but also an effective business partner, able to support subsidiary finance teams in meeting their reporting requirements.

This role is based at our Woking Office, ultimately reporting to the Director of Group Reporting,

Your skills, qualities, and experience

• Review and challenge monthly financial data submissions from regional teams and follow up queries through to resolution, ultimately providing a month end commentary on key movements.
• Business Partner to the regional finance teams across the ATG Entertainment group to support them in meeting Group policies and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate cross functionally with the relevant stakeholders to identify accounting impacts of operational initiatives, unusual transactions, new agreements & projects. Provide valuable insight that goes beyond just the journals posted into the accounts.
• Work with the rest of the group finance team to ensure that the monthly consolidation of c.130 entities are executed correctly. All intercompany balances are matched and reconciled and intra-group transactions eliminated; holding company postings and review; loan interest calculations and postings; group costs and recharges reconcile; IFRS16 journals are calculated and posted correctly.
• Understand and process quarterly derivative accounting entries.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet and cashflow reporting for distribution to the Board, investors, and banks.
• Participate in quarterly balance sheet reviews with subsidiary finance teams. Track agreed actions through to completion.
• Assist in the integration of new acquisitions onto the ATG finance platform, ensuring consistency in reporting and financial controls and processes.
• Become an expert user of our consolidation system - Microsoft Cognos Controller - to be able to maintain and develop the system to meet new requirements. Training and support will be provided.
• Contribute to the production of the annual statutory accounts of all UK subsidiaries (FRS101).
• Assist the Group Financial Manager in the production of the consolidated annual financial statements and report (IFRS).
• Calculate annual joint venture accounting adjustments for statutory accounts purposes.
• Be a key contact for the annual group audit, helping the Group Financial Manager to collate all audit evidence and manage auditor information requirements.
• Draft technical accounting memos on accounting judgements, unusual transactions, acquisitions, disposals, and debt refinances.
• Support the Group Financial Manager in ad hoc tasks and investigations, seeing these through individually to resolution.
• Identify risks and provide the appropriate solutions along with the ability to implement those solutions with the help of the wider finance team and business.

Essential

• ACA or equivalent qualified with experience working in a group finance function.
• Multi-currency complex consolidation experience.
• Technically minded, with a good understanding of IFRS.
• Strong systems skills in all MS Office applications, with advanced Excel.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Experience working with consolidation and reporting systems; Cognos Controller preferred but not required.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to successfully operate in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Ability to step back from the detail and effectively problem solve when issues arise.

Desirable

• Multi-regional group finance experience
• Experience in UK statutory accounts (audit or industry).

About Us-Our values

ATG Entertainment’s values set the tone for how we work, how we treat one another, and the culture we continue to build across the UK and the wider organisatio

• THRIVE doing what we love (with passion and dynamism)
• CONNECT through every act (with collaboration and kindness)
• DARE to do different (with curiosity and courage)
• PERFORM at our best (with customer focus and ownership)

Our Corporate Social Responsibility pillars

Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to play their part in achieving our goals and upholding our Corporate Social Responsibility priorities:

• Inclusion: Committing to creating and upholding a positive, inclusive culture that nurtures potential and supports well-being.
• Sustainability: Playing your part in reducing our environmental impact and finding more sustainable ways of working.
• Next Generations: Encouraging the next generation in live entertainment by contributing to our outreach and training programmes, including mentoring students and trainees, and supporting our Creative Learning and Community Partnerships work.

Our culture

You will help us uphold a positive culture around meeting our obligations, by having a positive attitude to health and safety, legal and insurance requirements and take care to understand our policies and procedures.

We are all expected to participate actively in the life of the company, and opportunities will arise for you to collaborate with others across the business. Everyone at ATG Entertainment is expected to be flexible and adapt as the needs of the business change, taking on new or different responsibilities as the need arises.

Our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Mission Statement - A Stage for Everyone

Our stages are a platform for compelling stories - stories that are for all, by all, and of all. We shine our spotlight on our differences and believe that understanding and celebrating these differences makes us better global citizens. We are passionate about the pursuit of true diversity and equality. We strive to make our venues beacons of these ideals in our communities. Onstage and off, we hold ourselves accountable for nurturing an inclusive culture, one in which everyone can bring their authentic selves. At ATG entertainment, we provide a stage for everyone.

We recognise that we do not have all the answers; but we strive to listen, to learn and to change in order to ensure ATG Entertainment becomes a truly inclusive organisation. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from individuals from the widest possible range of backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from those currently underrepresented in our workforce.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer, which means that we are taking action to ensure people with disabilities and long-term health conditions feel supported, engaged, and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will offer an interview or recruitment event to disabled candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they best meet the essential criteria for the role. Where we receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role, we will retain applications for the next available interview opportunity wherever possible.

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