Group Financial Accountant

Posted 3 days 9 hours ago by Sphere Digital Recruitment

£70,000 - £80,000 Annual
Permanent
Not Specified
Other
London, United Kingdom
Job Description

Group Consolidation & Reporting Accountant PE-backed MedTech Group £70,000-£80,000 pro rata 6-month FTC (potential to go permanent) Remote UK (London preferred - option to work in a co-working space)

JasperRose is partnering with a highly profitable, PE-backed European MedTech and healthcare group. The group has 60+ entities and is looking for a Group Consolidation & Reporting Accountant on a 6-month fixed-term contract, with real potential to go permanent. This is a rare remote opportunity (London preferred, with monthly travel to the Dublin head office) or hybrid from Dublin. The business recently moved from a listed environment to private equity ownership and is growing through acquisition, so this is a pivotal time to join.

Reporting to the Group Financial Controller, the role sits in a small, hands-on group finance team with regular exposure to the CFO, local finance teams, auditors and tax advisors. As well as owning the monthly consolidation and supporting the year-end audit, you will bring a fresh perspective to how the group reports. You will drive transformation and process improvement including supporting with the implementation of a new consolidation tool.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Delivering the monthly, quarterly and annual IFRS group consolidation across 60+ entities, reviewing subsidiary reporting packs and following up with local finance teams
  • Preparing consolidation journals, including intercompany eliminations and FX translation, and performing intercompany reconciliations
  • Preparing the monthly consolidated management accounts, group balance sheet reconciliations, and variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior year
  • Supporting Board, investor and lender reporting, including covenant calculations
  • Supporting the year-end audit: preparing audit schedules and the consolidated IFRS financial statements, and responding to auditor queries
  • Supporting group tax matters, including current and deferred tax, and working with external tax advisors on a group restructure
  • Bringing newly created holding entities into SAP
  • Helping to select and implement a consolidation tool, and driving process improvement, controls and automation across group reporting

Skill set required:

  • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with around 3-5 years' PQE
  • Hands-on group consolidation experience in a multi-entity environment (ideally 10+ entities)
  • Audit exposure, ideally from both sides: an audit background followed by delivering audits and statutory accounts in industry
  • Experience of both manual Excel-based consolidations and consolidation software is advantageous
  • Exposure to tax, M&A accounting or a PE-backed environment is a plus
  • A personable team player with a process-improvement mindset and the ambition to grow with a business going through significant change

This is an opportunity to really make an impact in a high-growth business where you will be a key part of the group financial controls team. You will be working in a high calibre and collaborative team, there is a strong opportunity for the role to go permanent should you prove yourself.