Senior Group Accountant

Cedar; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing global software company is seeking a Senior Group Accountant to enhance their accounting policy by leveraging IFRS skills. The ideal candidate will engage with stakeholders, support M&A activities, and drive financial reporting improvements in a dynamic, analytical capacity.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant ideally with Big 4/Top 10 experience.
• Experience in consolidations and accounting policy is essential.
• Desire to engage with finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support M&A activity with technical accounting solutions.
• Write accounting papers for ad hoc projects and new IFRS implementations.
• Drive improvements to financial reporting.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent)

Job description

This range is provided by Cedar. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

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I'm recruiting a Senior Group Accountant with a difference; in this role you'll use your accounting / IFRS skills in a much more analytical way to help shape accounting policy and write accounting papers to support M&A and other project activities. This client is a particularly fast-growing, global software business who have grown both organically and by acquisition; they operate with impressive margins and are using consistent profits to drive sustained future growth.

The newly created position of Senior Group Accountant reports to the Head of Group Reporting. In addition to significant ad hoc work, the main duties of this project-based role include:

• Support M&A activity by providing technical accounting solutions.
• Act as the subject matter expert on accounting relating to integrations and reorganisations.
• Provide support to treasury & tax departments around dividend repatriation, distributable reserves, FX issues and other key areas.
• Write accounting papers to support ad hoc projects and the implementation of any new IFRS standards.
• Drive improvements to financial reporting as a whole by co-ordinating with local controllers and the wider group finance team.
• Offer support to the wider group finance team with the more complex areas of period / year-end reporting.

Key candidate requirements for the Senior Group Accountant role are:

• Qualified accountant (ideally a qualified ACA who has worked / is working for a Big 4 / Top 10 practice).
• Prior exposure, in practice or commerce, to consolidations and / or accounting policy, especially in relation to any of IAS3, IFRS5 and IFRS9.
• Desire to take early responsibility and work with a wide cross-section of finance & non-finance stakeholders.
• Keen eye for detail and a desire to get involved; spots problems as they arise and solves them quickly.
• Thrives on cerebral challenge and enjoys being resourceful / a team player.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing, Analyst, and Finance

• Industries

  Data Infrastructure and Analytics, Embedded Software Products, and Software Development

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