Group Financial Accountant Finance · London ·

Overview

Job Level: Senior Associate

Reporting Line: Ahsan Altaf, Group Senior Finance Manager

Role Mission: Support the delivery of robust, accurate and timely group financial reporting across Kepler Interactive. This role is central to the day-to-day execution of the Group's financial close, consolidation and statutory reporting processes, while contributing to continuous improvement of systems, controls and accounting policies across the Group.

Success Definition:

• Execute a timely and accurate month-end close process each month, working closely with studio finance teams to ensure group consolidation is completed with no disruption to business deliverables.
• Support the preparation and delivery of Group Financial Statements and Holding entity statutory accounts that are audit-ready and signed off within agreed timelines.
• Act as a key point of contact for studio finance teams, building strong working relationships and ensuring consistent application of Group accounting policies.
• Play an active role in the implementation and continuous improvement of the Group's consolidation system (Tagetik/ERP), enhancing efficiency and data integrity.
• Contribute to the drafting and maintenance of Group-wide accounting policies and procedures, ensuring they are clearly documented, up to date and consistently applied.
• Support the Group Senior Finance Manager in delivering a high-quality audit process, including preparation of audit schedules and responding to auditor queries.
• Be a reliable and responsive point of support for the UK holding entity, ensuring any ad-hoc operational finance requests are handled accurately and efficiently, with minimal direction required from the Group Senior Finance Manager.

What You’ll Do:

• Monthly consolidated financial results and associated reporting packs.
• Group Financial Statements and Holding entity statutory accounts at year-end.
• Group-wide accounting policies and procedure documentation.
• Audit support schedules and deliverables.
• Group controls documentation, process improvement recommendations and implementation updates.
• Ad-hoc operational finance support and deliverables for the UK holding entity.
• System improvement deliverables as part of ERP/consolidation tool enhancements.

Areas of Accountability:

• Month-end close: Driving the day-to-day execution of the Group's month-end close process, including intercompany eliminations, consolidation adjustments and variance analysis.
• Studio liaison: Acting as the primary operational point of contact for studio finance teams, reviewing their submissions and supporting them with local reporting challenges.
• Statutory reporting: Drafting Group Financial Statements and Holding entity statutory accounts, ensuring compliance with IFRS and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Accounting policies: Assisting in the drafting and maintenance of Group-wide accounting policies and procedures to ensure consistency across the Group.
• Controls & process improvement: Supporting the design, documentation and implementation of Group-wide financial controls, identifying gaps or inefficiencies in existing processes and driving continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen the overall control environment across the Group.
• Systems process improvement: Supporting the implementation and optimisation of the Group's consolidation system (ERP/Tagetik), identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and data integrity.
• Audit support: Preparing audit schedules, responding to auditor queries and supporting the Group Senior Finance Manager in managing the year-end audit process.
• HQ support: Providing operational finance support to the UK HQ on an ad-hoc basis, including assistance with various projects.

Who You Are:

• Recently qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with 1-2 years post-qualified experience.
• Experience in group reporting or consolidation, ideally within a multi-entity, multi-currency environment.
• Solid technical accounting knowledge with working familiarity of IFRS.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously.
• A proactive, hands-on approach – comfortable with execution as well as problem-solving.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to liaise confidently across finance teams and studios.
• Experience in the gaming or wider interactive entertainment industry is desirable but not essential.
• Experience with Oracle-based consolidation tools such as Tagetik or similar ERP systems is a bonus.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, evolving environment where processes are still being built.

What We Can Offer You:

• Competitive salary, 20% bonus and potential for stock option plans.
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays and end-of-year shutdown.
• Flexibility to manage working hours to best suit your needs.
• Personal training budget equivalent to £1,500 per year, as well as access to conferences and formal training.
• Up to 5 days paid volunteering leave per year and £100 to a charity of your choice on your birthday.
• A range of personalised wellbeing support systems including Spill, Mental Health First Aiders and more.

Other Benefits:

• Medical and health insurance.
• Pension contributions.