Group Financial Accountant – Milton Keynes

Group Financial Accountant, ACA or ACCA qualified, Central Milton Keynes/Hybrid, c£55,000 

Seeking a progressive, finalist/qualified accountant who has a passion for data, someone who can take complex, multiple source data sets, collect, model and analyse them effectively to extract insights, and then be able to interpret and summarise findings in a way that is appropriate for the audience.

Working for an established professional services company with excellent career progression. the Group Accountant will form part of the Group Finance team.  Your role will involve supporting a broad range of financial reporting, accounting, budgeting, tax, analysis, and treasury tasks.  The role will have interaction across the group and is an ideally positioned for progression up to division FC and onto FD.  Initial responsibilities in your role as the Group Financial Accountant will include:

• Help with the preparation of Group full-year and interim financial statements
• Help coordinate and manage the annual budgeting process for central companies, with the preparation of the consolidated budget
• Review of all central management accounts
• Support the preparation of central and consolidated forecasts
• Co-ordinate the preparation of Group board presentations
• Administration of the treasury of the Group
• Review of balance sheet reconciliations
• Assist in the payroll of the Group
• Interaction with subsidiary Finance Directors and their teams within the overall group finance department, all based in MK
• Continually review systems and processes to ensure that they are robust and operate to the highest practical levels of efficiency and effectiveness.
• Group wide initiatives – Project work

As you would expect, this role requires effective people and communication skills in person, online and written. Confidence at an intermediate level or above in Excel, with strong Word, PowerPoint, and other applications. Knowledge of Power Bi and its application would be an advantage.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ACA or ACCA finalist/qualified professional seeking to progress their career. Working closely with the Group Subsidiary Finance Directors and their teams.

Hybrid working 3 days in Milton Keynes office.