Senior Financial Accountant

About the role

As our Senior Financial Accounting Manager, you will play a crucial role in overseeing our financial accounting operations across the Highbourne Group ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of our financial records, while adhering to relevant accounting principles and regulations. This is a brilliant opportunity for a Group Financial Accounting Manager to lead a successful financial accounting team in a business that is going through exciting transformation. The Group Financial Accounting Manager must be fully qualified

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation and consolidation of the Group's monthly, half-year, and annual financial statements in accordance with relevant accounting standards.
• Act as a key point of contact for external auditors, managing the year-end audit process and ensuring all queries are resolved efficiently.
• Provide expert technical accounting advice to the wider finance team and business stakeholders on complex transactions and new accounting standards.
• Maintain and improve the group's financial controls framework to ensure the integrity of financial data and compliance with internal policies.
• Support the Group Financial Controller in ad-hoc projects, including corporate restructures, acquisitions, and treasury management.
• Liaise with tax and treasury specialists to ensure accurate reporting of group tax positions and funding requirements.
• You:
• Skills and competencies
• Advanced knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Proven experience in group consolidations and statutory reporting.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and experience with financial consolidation software (e.g., Cognos, OneStream, or similar).
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to meet tight reporting deadlines.
• Ability to build strong working relationships across different departments and seniority levels.
• Whether you are currently a Group Finance Manager, Financial Accounting Manager, or a Senior Management Accountant looking for your next step into a group-wide role, we'd love to hear from you.
• Us:
• Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:
• Bonus
• Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
• Life assurance
• Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
• Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
• Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
• Financial education and loans
• Flexible working options
• A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
• And more!
• #BelongWithUs
• We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.

Additional Information

#BelongWithUs Come and join us as a Senior Financial Accountant to provide essential financial reporting and technical accounting expertise for the Highbourne Group. You will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our group financial statements and supporting our strategic growth.

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