Eaton Syalon Ltd
Group Financial Accountant
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Group Financial Accountant – 15 Month FTC
Ideal 1st or 2nd move from Mid to Large Practice
Sheffield | Hybrid working – 3 days on site
£55,000 – £60,000 + Benefits
Eaton Syalon are exclusively partnering our client on a sole agency basis to recruit a Group Financial Accountant on a 15-month fixed term contract, covering a period of maternity leave.
This is a broad group role and a great opportunity for a technically strong accountant who enjoys being close to the detail, but also wants exposure across a listed, multi entity business.
Working closely with the Group Financial Controller and wider senior finance team, you’ll take ownership across Group reporting, statutory consolidation and technical accounting, alongside broader month-end, cashflow, budgeting and forecasting activity.
There’s plenty of interaction with divisional finance teams and, alongside the Group reporting responsibilities, approximately one week in four will involve supporting wider Central Finance/month-end activity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Producing half-year and year-end Group statutory consolidations, including IFRS consolidation adjustments
- Supporting preparation of the Group Annual Report, disclosures and statutory accounts
- Acting as a key point of contact for external audit
- Reviewing and challenging divisional inputs into Group reporting
- Supporting UK statutory reporting and taxation requirements
- Maintaining and advising on technical accounting areas including IFRS 16
- Supporting areas including impairment, going concern, EPS, share-based payments, ECL and tax for Group reporting
- Supporting preparation of the Central Finance Pack for Board review
- Preparing the Group's fortnightly eight-week cashflow forecast and reporting for the senior leadership team
- Supporting Central Finance month-end, including balance sheet reconciliations, FX/intercompany entries and management reporting
- Supporting the budgeting and forecasting cycle, including consolidation and variance analysis
- Building strong relationships with finance teams across the wider Group
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The full role also provides exposure to consolidation reporting, multi-currency reporting, statutory accounts and technical accounting, giving it considerably more breadth than a traditional Financial Accounting position.
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Experience Required:
- You’ll be a qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA (or equivalent) with a strong technical grounding and good knowledge of IFRS.
- You may have trained in practice and moved into industry, be considering your first move from practice, or already be working within a Group Accounting environment.
- More important is your exposure to areas such as consolidations, statutory reporting, audit and technical accounting, ideally within a multi-entity environment. Previous exposure to multi-currency businesses would be particularly useful.
- You’ll need to be comfortable working with detail and equally happy moving between technical Group reporting and broader month-end activity. You’ll be able to challenge and interpret financial information and build strong relationships with finance teams and senior stakeholders across the business.
- Strong Excel skills are essential. Experience of consolidation reporting tools would be useful, but isn't essential.
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