At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure accurate month-end consolidation, prepare financial disclosures, and support audits.
- Company: Abcam, a Danaher operating company, focuses on financial reporting in a global business.
- Benefits: Offers comprehensive health care programs and paid time off among other competitive benefits.
- Other info: Position is based in Cambridge and involves close interaction with various stakeholders.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team in a fast-paced environment with opportunities for immediate impact.
- Qualifications: Requires ACA, CA, ACCA qualification and experience with large multinational businesses.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Responsibilities
- Perform key activities relating to month-end consolidation and close, ensuring the accuracy of key balance sheet items across the group.
- Work with the wider finance team to drive the month-end process and ensure tasks are completed to a high quality and on time.
- Prepare monthly files for journal postings and submission of journals for internal approval, ensuring supporting files are SOX compliant.
- Prepare the submission of monthly and quarterly reporting packages to the parent company.
- Produce financial reporting disclosures for subsidiary financial statements.
- Prepare for external audits and internal reviews by working closely with auditors and ensuring that deliverables are prepared accurately and within set deadlines.
- Be responsible for the preparation of key controls and ensure that these are operating effectively.
- Have close interactions with a variety of internal and external stakeholders including entity finance teams, Finance Business Partners, Tax and Treasury, and internal and external audit.
Qualifications
- Having a professional qualification (ACA, CA, ACCA or equivalent) and experience working within or auditing large, listed multinational businesses, with strong technical accounting skills and knowledge of IFRS.
- Strong organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to prioritise tasks for multiple stakeholders and meet deadlines.
- Self-starter and intellectually curious, with a capacity to work in a high-growth, fast-paced environment while being a team player.
- Strong Excel skills including the ability to reconcile and summarise large volumes of data.
Preferred Experience
- Experience of Oracle and consolidation systems (HFM / FCCS).
- Experience of US GAAP accounting and standards.
About the role
The Group Financial Accountant is responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely reporting of our financial results. The team is responsible for the Group's financial reporting, the coordination and running of month and quarter-end timetables for submission of results to the parent company, the monthly consolidation of results, and certain areas of accounting that are centralised for the group, namely leases, and for providing the technical expertise to the wider finance team. This position reports to the Finance Manager – Group Finance and is part of the Finance team located in Cambridge and will be an on-site role. This is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment, in a growing global business that operates under a SOX environment and is transitioning to reporting under a multi-GAAP framework (US GAAP and IFRS), in multiple currencies. Working with a range of stakeholders, both internal and external, in a number of different countries, this is a dynamic role and an opportunity for a finance professional to make an immediate impact. The role is part of a three- to four-person team and is suited for a newly qualified accountant who is looking to make their first move into industry.
Group Financial Accountant in Newtown employer: Abcam plc.
Abcam, located in Cambridge, is part of Danaher and offers competitive benefits like health care and paid time off. The finance team is small, fostering close collaboration and immediate impact in a growing global business.
