Group Accountant

at  360 Resourcing Solutions

Our client is a family run business, with an amazing product and customer centric approach. They have 180 stores in the UK and a rapidly growing online, International and concessions business. They really care about people, customers, and the communities in which they trade and are now looking for a Group Accountant to be based out of their amazing Amersham head office. The role offers some hybrid working with up to six days per calendar month home-working and the rest of the time-based working with their collaborative teams.
As Group Accountant report into the Head of Finance and you will be responsible for delivering accurate, timely and insightful Consolidated Group accounts and financial data for the business. You will need great technical skills, a flexible approach, a keen eye for detail and ability to deliver on time. This role is significant to ensuring consistent compliance of the group and you will need to work independently as well as within the wider team.

GROUP ACCOUNTANT – REQUIRED SKILLS

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience working with group consolidations, accounts preparation and audit in either practice or industry.
• Experience with communicating financial information to non-finance colleagues.
• Familiar with accounting packages ideally Unit 4 or similar.
• Intermediate experience of MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative, prioritise tasks, handle pressure and support finance team.
  As Group Accountant you will receive a competitive salary, bonus of up to 15% and a range of additional benefits. You’ll also have the chance to add value with your skillset, during a pivotal period of growth for the business. The role will provide challenge and excitement in equal measure.
  If this role excites, and you can offer the right skills mix, then we’d love to hear from you

• Produce accurate monthly consolidated Group accounts to tight deadline.
• Preparation of monthly balance sheet reporting for the group entities.
• Completion and review of balance sheet reconciliations for the group entities.
• Take ownership of smaller entities’ monthly management accounts.
• Provide monthly commentary on variances to budget and reforecast.
• Responsible for all entities’ VAT return and be the main liaison for VAT queries.
• Take ownership of Group tax planning and all aspect of taxation matter.
• Group planning for accounting compliance and new legislation.
• Ownership of intercompany reconciliations and forecasting.
• Produce monthly bank reporting and commentary.
• Produce and forecast quarterly banking covenants to ensure compliance.
• Support and input into the annual budget and periodic forecasting.
• Assist in preparation of statutory accounts and annual audit.