Senior Financial Accountant in Newport, Wales

Robert Half Finance & Accounting are delighted to be supporting a large, well-established UK organisation with the appointment of a Senior Financial Accountant. The business is recognised for its strong operational foundations, progressive leadership, and a culture that genuinely prioritises professional development, collaboration, and continuous improvement. With a focus on doing things the right way, they value people who take ownership, bring new ideas, and contribute to shaping a high-performing finance environment. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced accountant who enjoys technical reporting, complex structures, and contributing to strategic finance initiatives within a supportive and people-focused organisation. The role is a full time, permanent contract based out of their Central Bristol office with excellent transport links, where they work to a hybrid working pattern. The salary on offer is up to £70,000 + benefits.

The Role

• Working as part of a high-performing Group Reporting structure, the Senior Financial Accountant will lead a small team and play a key role in delivering accurate and timely statutory reporting across a large portfolio of legal entities.
• You will be responsible for overseeing the planning, project management, and production of legal entity accounts, ensuring that statutory filings, compliance requirements, and internal controls are met to a consistently high standard.
• Alongside this, you will help shape longer-term initiatives to improve the efficiency and structure of the group's legal entities, partnering closely with internal and external stakeholders.
• This is a position that sits within the organisation's Group Reporting leadership team-offering genuine influence, visibility, and involvement in setting team culture, priorities, and future direction.

What You'll Be Doing

• Owning the end-to-end planning and project management of circa 350 entity accounts, including around 100 subject to external audit.
• Coordinating internal and external stakeholders, including audit partners, to deliver statutory accounts to an agreed timetable.
• Reviewing, preparing, and finalising legal entity accounts, drawing on wider Group Reporting resources where needed.
• Driving a longer-term entity rationalisation programme-identifying unnecessary entities, simplifying structures, and reducing audit requirements where appropriate.
• Working closely with the company secretariat team to ensure entity structures remain accurate, compliant, and up to date.
• Reviewing and simplifying intercompany trading relationships, eliminating legacy balances, and ensuring recoverability of key intercompany accounts.
• Owning the legal entity adjustment ledger and ensuring accurate posting into the Group result.
• Supporting broader change and transformation initiatives across the finance function, balancing BAU with project activity.
• Contributing to continuous improvement, leveraging technology to improve controls, efficiency, and accuracy.
• Playing an active role in future finance systems implementation.

What We're Looking For

• Professionally qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with strong technical and statutory reporting experience.
• Proven ability to manage a team and support others' development.
• Experience working with complex group structures and delivering high-quality reporting to tight deadlines.
• Strong IFRS knowledge and experience in audit or group financial statements.
• Excellent Excel skills, with exposure to ERP and consolidation tools beneficial.