Senior Group Accountant

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.

Position Overview

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:

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

Key Candidate Requirements

Key candidate requirements for the Senior Group Accountant role are:

1. Qualified accountant (ideally a qualified ACA who has worked / is working for a Big 4 / Top 10 practice).
2. Prior exposure, in practice or commerce, to consolidations and / or accounting policy, especially in relation to any of IFRS 3, IFRS 5 and IFRS 9.
3. Desire to take early responsibility and work with a wide cross-section of finance & non-finance stakeholders.
4. Keen eye for detail and a desire to get involved; spots problems as they arise and solves them quickly.
5. Thrives on cerebral challenge and enjoys being resourceful / a team player.