The Role
Are you a technically strong accountant who enjoys complex reporting, solving challenges and working with a wide range of stakeholders?
We re looking for a Consolidation Reporting Accountant to join our Group Reporting team in Bristol. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in one of the UK s leading property businesses, taking ownership of statutory reporting across a large and diverse group structure while helping shape our financial reporting processes.
You ll work closely with senior finance leaders, external auditors and teams across the business, giving you real visibility and the opportunity to make an impact beyond the numbers.
What You`ll Be Doing
- Leading the production of monthly IFRS group consolidations and key Board reporting.
- Preparing the Group s annual and interim financial statements, ensuring they re delivered accurately and on time.
- Managing statutory reporting for more than 300 legal entities, including annual financial statements, quarterly bank reporting and regulatory submissions.
- Acting as the main point of contact for external auditors throughout the statutory audit process.
- Maintaining and improving our Oracle General Ledger, including chart of accounts management and user acceptance testing for system enhancements.
- Supporting treasury reporting, corporate simplification projects and entity reserve management.
- Keeping our reporting compliant with the latest UK GAAP and IFRS requirements while identifying opportunities to improve processes and controls.
- Partnering with teams across Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal and Company Secretarial to deliver high-quality reporting and resolve technical accounting queries.
What We`re Looking for in You
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification.
- Strong experience preparing statutory financial statements and consolidated accounts.
- Experience working with complex group structures and multiple legal entities.
- Excellent technical accounting knowledge with a good understanding of UK GAAP and IFRS.
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large volumes of financial data.
- A proactive approach, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
- Strong communication skills and the confidence to build relationships with colleagues, auditors and senior stakeholders.
What You`ll Get in Return
- A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
- 25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
- A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
- Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
- Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!
About Unite Students
Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100business and the UK`s leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with 74,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.
Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.
People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.
Room for Everyone
We`re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we`re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what`s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.
We are US.
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