Group Financial Reporting Accountant

Group Reporting Accountant

Company Overview

The Airedale Group are the leading market design, installation, and maintenance provider for commercial kitchens in the UK hospitality and food service industry. We work alongside clients from the initial designs through to bespoke fabrication and installation. Coupled with the largest body of professional maintenance engineers in the country, we offer the complete end-to-end solution to our extensive client base. We have long-standing relationships with many of the biggest multi-site brands in the UK.

Job Overview

We are seeking a Group Reporting Accountant who thrives in a fast-paced, private equity-backed environment and takes pride in producing accurate, timely, and insightful financial reporting. This is a key role within the Finance team, requiring someone who can work proactively and independently while bringing a curious, continuous improvement mindset. The successful candidate will communicate effectively with stakeholders across the business and embody our core values by demonstrating integrity in financial reporting, vision in driving reporting improvements, dedication to delivering high-quality work to agreed deadlines, and a passion for accuracy and attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly group consolidation (statutory and management), including journals, eliminations and intercompany
• Own group reporting timetables, ensuring consistent and disciplined close across all entities.
• Review subsidiary submissions for accuracy, consistency and accounting compliance.
• Maintain and develop the group chart of accounts and reporting structures.
• Produce monthly management accounts at group and sub-group level.
• Support the preparation of Board packs, operating KPIs, and financial commentary.
• Deliver variance analysis vs budget, forecast and prior period, explaining movements clearly.
• Support cash flow, net debt and covenant reporting.
• Ad-hoc filing support e.g. confirmation statements
• Prepare reporting required under P.E. requirements (e.g. covenant calculations, borrower reporting).
• Support EBITDA definitions, normalisations, and add-backs.
• Own and maintain Group reporting models and forecasting and analysis tools, ensuring appropriate controls and documentation.
• Act as a key finance contact for Rubicon questions and ad-hoc analysis.
• Ownership of ESG reporting and involvement in strategy around data collection.
• Prepare or support group statutory accounts (UK GAAP / FRS 102 typically).
• Account for complex areas such as acquisitions, purchase accounting, share-based payments, leases and provisions.
• Working with the Group FC liaise with external auditors, responding to queries and managing deliverables.
• Support acquisitions and integrations, including: Opening balance sheets, Accounting policy alignment, Reporting integration.
• Improve systems, controls and processes as the group scale.
• Support finance transformation or system implementations where required.
• Maintain strong financial control, documentation and audit trails.
• Identify and remediate control weaknesses.
• Support internal reviews, audit findings and remediation plans.