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Group Financial Accountant - 12 Month FTC

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PA Consulting
Location: Melbourn, United Kingdom
Benefits:
- Competitive
Industry: Accounting
Company Description
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
Job Description
Join our Group Finance Team to play a key role during a busy period, with a focus on group reporting, statutory accounts, consolidation and technical accounting matters, including the application of IFRS. This is a hands-on role for a capable qualified accountant who can bring strong technical expertise, sound judgement and a practical approach to delivery.
- Contributing to the monthly group consolidation, including raising consolidation journals, reviewing consolidated numbers, supporting month-end activities, preparing statutory financial statements, variance analysis and commentary, reconciliations, and technical accounting analysis.
- Providing clear and timely information to internal and external stakeholders, including auditors and advisors, and engaging thoughtfully with audit requests.
- Supporting technical accounting matters across the finance function and contributing to notes and support for the group annual report.
- Building an understanding of our finance systems, reporting processes and statutory accounts timetable to take ownership of assigned entities and deliverables.
- Working across a range of finance priorities with a flexible approach while maintaining high standards of accuracy and control.
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Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment.
Qualifications
- Qualified accountant – ACA / CA / ACCA
- Strong technical accounting skills, including IFRS, and the ability to research and apply accounting guidance where needed
- Experience in group reporting, consolidation, month-end, audit support, and statutory accounts in a corporate or practice environment
- Able to quickly build understanding of finance systems, processes, and team ways of working
- Commitment to excellent financial control
- Experience working with auditors or supporting audit processes would be beneficial
- A proactive, highly organised self-starter with the ability to prioritise and deliver to strict deadlines, ideally with ability to co-ordinate x-team groups to establish new processes.
- Tenacious with great attention to detail
- Strong communication skills
- Flexible, collaborative and willing to support across any area of the team as priorities change
We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.
Additional Information
Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.


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- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve)
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
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Firm: PA Consulting
Location: Melbourn, United Kingdom
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All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.
We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.
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