Senior Financial Accountant
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London (hybrid — 3 days/week in office) · Group Finance
Own the toughest technical calls in a group that's scaling fast.
A rapidly growing, PE-backed group building through acquisition seek a Senior Financial Accountant to take genuine ownership of Group Reporting and Technical Accounting.
Reporting to the Group Financial Controller and Corporate Finance Director, you'll sit right between core financial accounting delivery and Group reporting.
What you'll bring
You're a technically strong, detail-oriented accountant with a firm grasp of IFRS and FRS 102. Real depth in IFRS 16, IFRS 15 and IAS 36. You can research a standard, apply it to a live transaction, and distil the answer into a clear, concise paper for a specialist or a non-specialist alike.
You'll be ACA or ACCA qualified. Audit trained with 3+ years' post-qualification experience gained in a large, complex, listed or PE-backed organisation.
What you'll do
You'll be the Group's go-to technical resource on the complex, judgemental areas: leases (IFRS 16), revenue recognition (IFRS 15), impairment of goodwill and assets (IAS 36), financial instruments and business combinations, with solid FRS 102 knowledge alongside IFRS. You'll draft clear, well-evidenced technical accounting papers on new transactions and emerging issues, lead the Group's impairment reviews and CGU analysis, and own the technical oversight of the IFRS 16 lease model. You'll keep the Group accounting policies manual current and consistently applied across the business.
Because acquisitions drive the story here, you'll support financial due diligence on targets, work on purchase price allocations, fair value assessments and opening balance sheet adjustments, and lead the technical side of post-acquisition integration, aligning newly acquired entities to Group policy as they rationalise structures. xgikmsk
On the reporting side, you'll own designated month-end close areas, take a lead role in year-end statutory accounts with ownership of the judgemental disclosures, support the Group consolidation, and run the subsidiary statutory accounts across circa 60 entities (planning through filing and iXBRL tagging). You'll be a key point of contact for external audit, and you'll support reporting to PE investors, lenders, Companies Hou...
Senior Financial Accountant employer: Human Capital Partners Limited Careers
Join a dynamic and high-performing Finance team in London as an Interim Senior Finance Business Partner, where you will play a pivotal role in supporting key business areas and influencing decision-making at all levels. Our hybrid work culture promotes flexibility, allowing you to balance office collaboration with remote productivity, while our commitment to employee growth ensures you have access to continuous learning opportunities and the chance to make a meaningful impact within the organisation. With a focus on teamwork and innovation, this role offers a unique opportunity to thrive in a fast-paced environment alongside talented professionals dedicated to achieving excellence.
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