Senior Financial Accountant
Qualities Needed
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Come and join us as a Senior Financial Accountant to provide essential financial reporting and technical accounting expertise for the Highbourne Group. You will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our group financial statements and supporting our strategic growth.
The Role:
As our Senior Financial Accounting Manager, you will play a crucial role in overseeing our financial accounting operations across the Highbourne Group ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of our financial records, while adhering to relevant accounting principles and regulations. This is a brilliant opportunity for a Group Financial Accounting Manager to lead a successful financial accounting team in a business that is going through exciting transformation. The Group Financial Accounting Manager must be fully qualified
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the preparation and consolidation of the Group’s monthly, half-year, and annual financial statements in accordance with relevant accounting standards.
- Act as a key point of contact for external auditors, managing the year-end audit process and ensuring all queries are resolved efficiently.
- Provide expert technical accounting advice to the wider finance team and business stakeholders on complex transactions and new accounting standards.
- Maintain and improve the group’s financial controls framework to ensure the integrity of financial data and compliance with internal policies.
- Support the Group Financial Controller in ad-hoc projects, including corporate restructures, acquisitions, and treasury management.
- Liaise with tax and treasury specialists to ensure accurate reporting of group tax positions and funding requirements.
You:
You are a qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or equivalent) with a strong background in technical financial accounting, likely gained within a large practice or a complex group environment. You have a sharp eye for detail, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and the ability to explain complex financial concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
Skills and competencies
- Advanced knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP.
- Proven experience in group consolidations and statutory reporting.
- Strong proficiency in Excel and experience with financial consolidation software (e.g., Cognos, OneStream, or similar).
- Excellent project management skills with the ability to meet tight reporting deadlines.
- Ability to build strong working relationships across different departments and seniority levels.
Whether you are currently a Group Finance Manager, Financial Accounting Manager, or a Senior Management Accountant looking for your next step into a group-wide role, we’d love to hear from you.
Us:
From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.
Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:
- Bonus
- Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
- Life assurance
- Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
- Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
- Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
- Financial education and loans
- Flexible working options
- A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
- And more!
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We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.
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