GAIN - Senior Financial Accountant in London

Team: Finance

Reporting to: Group Financial Controller

Location: Remote / London

ABOUT: GAIN is a creative-led, insight-driven company that blends data, tech and creativity. We believe the best ideas emerge where intelligence and creativity unite, where insight sparks imagination, and where innovation turns possibility into progress. We are explorers of new frontiers, shaping bold strategies that move people, brands, and businesses forward. Individually and together, our specialist teams provide the vision, data, and confidence brands and organisations need to make braver, more impactful decisions. Today as GAIN, we work as a united force, using data to fuel creativity, and technology to unlock new possibilities. We don’t just embrace innovation, we engineer it, transforming information into action, and ideas into breakthroughs. This is where rebel thinking, smart technology and data-driven creativity shape the future.

THE ROLE: We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Senior Financial Accountant to join our finance team. In this role, you will take ownership of the group monthly consolidation process, oversee robust financial controls, support management of group liquidity, and ensure strict statutory compliance. This position bridges the gap between technical accounting and forward-thinking finance, offering a distinct opportunity to lead systems optimisation, manage core transactional workflows, and drive automation across our corporate structure. You will ensure all financial control and compliance aspects are managed and delivered in an effective and timely manner. You will also play an important role in the relationship with Senior Stakeholders including liaising with CFO and work with the Finance Business Partners.

Responsibilities will include:

• Financial Reporting and Group Consolidation
• Group Monthly Consolidation: Lead the end-to-end monthly consolidation process for the group's entities, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
• Month-End Management: Oversee the month-end close processes for corporate entities, maintaining a strict and efficient close calendar.
• Variance Analysis & Commentary: Perform rigorous analytical reviews on financial performance, delivering insightful variance analysis and commentary to support strategic decision-making.
• Geographic Entity Reporting & Transfer Pricing: Manage geographic entity reporting requirements and support the implementation, monitoring, and documentation of the group's transfer pricing policies.
• Corporate Accounting
• Holding Company & Corporate Entities: Take ownership of the accounting, intercompany transactions, and net asset tracking for Group Holding Companies and corporate entities.
• Legal Entity & Restructuring Changes: Account for corporate reorganisations, legal entity changes, capital restructurings, and post-acquisition integrations across the group.
• FRS 102 & Technical Reporting Updates: Lead the technical assessment and operational transition for accounting standard updates under FRS 102, specifically managing the transition and ongoing compliance for operating lease changes (in line with the convergence toward IFRS 16 principles).
• Cash Management & Treasury
• Cash Flow Forecasting: Develop, maintain, and roll forward rolling group cash flow forecasts to provide clear visibility on short and long-term liquidity.
• Treasury & Liquidity Management: Monitor daily cash positions across group bank accounts, optimise working capital, and manage internal funding or currency requirements where necessary.
• Systems, Process Optimisation & Automation
• Sage Intacct Administration: Act as a key finance super-user for Sage Intacct, ensuring the system is configured effectively to support multi-entity reporting, dimension tracking, and smooth month-end workflows.
• AP Process Modernisation: Focus on the integration of automated invoice-processing tools, optimising purchase order workflows, and refining control testing to ensure efficient, paperless AP operations.
• AR & Billing Efficiency: Drive improvements in the Accounts Receivable workflow, optimising billing cycles, automating payment collection matches, and ensuring robust aging analysis to improve working capital.
• AI & Process Development: Actively identify, test, and implement AI-driven process improvements and software integrations to eliminate manual accounting tasks and reduce transaction cycle times.
• Financial Governance & Control
• Balance Sheet Integrity: Review group balance sheet reconciliations to ensure accuracy, resolve complex discrepancies, and mitigate financial risk.
• Financial Control Review: Regularly evaluate, design, and implement internal financial controls to safeguard company assets and streamline operations.
• Taxation, Audit & Compliance
• Group Tax Management: Manage group-wide tax compliance filings and reporting obligations.
• Statutory Compliance: Ensure full alignment with UK/Non UK statutory accounting regulations and filing requirements.
• Audit Management & External Liaison: Act as the primary point of contact for external accountants and auditors, managing the preparation of year-end audit files and ensuring a smooth, efficient audit cycle.
• Technical Updates: Stay abreast of changing accounting standards and technical updates, assessing their impact on group financial practices and implementing required adjustments.
• Global Advisor Management: Manage and coordinate relationships with external accountants, tax advisors, and local service providers across our international regions, including Canada, Spain, the Philippines, and India.
• Payroll & Payroll Accounting
• Global Payroll Operations: Oversee and support the execution of global payroll across fortnightly and monthly timetables for the UK, USA, Philippines, India, Spain, Guernsey, Ireland, and Canada.
• International Tax & Social Security Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to regional compliance requirements, ensuring statutory tax payments, pensions, and Social Security contributions are calculated accurately and paid on time across all jurisdictions.
• Payroll Ledger Control: Collaborate closely with the Group Financial Accountant to ensure that all payroll-related balance sheet accounts are fully reconciled, clear, and accurate.
• Liquidity Coordination: Provide an accurate, forward-looking view of payroll funding timings for all countries to directly support group cash forecasting workflows.

Requirements

• Qualifications: Fully ACA/ACCA qualified
• Skills Requirement:
• AI & Automation: Ability to leverage AI tools and financial automation platform capabilities to streamline workflows, enhance data analysis, and improve process efficiency.
• Communication: Ability to communicate to different stakeholders in the business and manage external stakeholders where required.
• Time Management: Ability to multi-task, prioritise work and meet deadlines.
• Team Working: Collaborate effectively with team members to deliver common goals.
• Attention to Detail: Demonstrate accuracy and pay attention to detail.
• Organisation: Ability to manage workload and organise work streams.
• Excel: Strong Excel Skills, basic (VLookup/Pivot Tables) are Essential.
• Technical: Strong understanding of UK GAAP and ability to grasp technical accounting matters and apply to real-time scenarios.
• Consolidation: Strong understanding of monthly consolidation processes and requirements.
• Financial Control: Strong understanding of key compliance and reporting requirements.
• Commercial: Ability to grasp commercial aspects of the numbers.
• Problem Solving: Ability to work independently on projects and work through challenges to deliver an effective result.
• Analytical: Be able to summarise and deconstruct large volumes of data into an understandable form.
• Risk Awareness: Understanding of risk factors from a financial and operational perspective for the business.

HOW YOU’LL WORK:

• Rebel Thinking: We don’t accept “good enough”. Rebel Thinking is about curiosity with courage. We make it safe to question assumptions, challenge the obvious, and explore smarter, braver ways forward, even when it feels uncomfortable. This is how new ideas, better products, and real breakthroughs happen.
• Make It Happen: “We turn intent into momentum.” Making it Happen is about turning ambition into action. We move fast, learn fast and push through obstacles together. Progress beats perfection, and momentum creates impact.
• Swarming Our Expertise: “Individually smart. Collectively unstoppable.” Swarming our Expertise means we win together. We commit to developing our expertise so that by combining diverse skills, perspectives and experiences, we solve harder problems faster and deliver results no single expert could achieve.

Benefits: Our benefits for UK employees include:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Income protection
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme
• Tech & Wearables salary sacrifice scheme
• Octopus EV Scheme
• Discounts and deals on a range of items from hotels, holidays and hormone testing to cinema, gyms and will writing

GAIN Academy: At GAIN, we invest in our people as seriously as we invest in our clients. The GAIN Academy is our internal learning and development hub, a place to grow your skills, explore new ideas, and take your career in the direction you want. From Leadership and Management development, AI fluency to mentoring, experiential workshops and on-demand learning experiences, the Academy is built around you. Professional development isn't something that happens to you at GAIN, it's something you own.

GAIN is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.