Senior Group Reporting Accountant | Dartford | £70k Basic + £5k Car Allowance

Cobb & Jones Recruitment are supporting a large engineering focused company in their search for a new Senior Group Reporting Accounting. The role will involve taking an active role in supporting the delivery of the year-end financial statements and monthly management accounts reporting. This role will provide capacity to drive management accounts alignment and broaden the group control environment as well as supporting the long-term contract accounting reviews across the business. Reporting to the Head of Reporting within the central finance team with a high degree of exposure to the European senior management team.

Team Deliverables:
• Preparation and review of the Group consolidated financial accounts
• Preparation and review of the UK statutory accounts
• Preparation of technical accounting papers to support the year end audit process
• Preparation of a small number of monthly management accounts
• Review of accounting position on long term contracts in line with IFRS 15
• Supporting the testing of the control environment
• Supporting the covenant and other external stakeholder reporting
• Supporting other ad hoc report preparation and tasks as required

Profile:
• Highly numerate and financially literate –qualified accountant (ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Previous experience of delivering to predetermined deadlines
• Previous experience of consolidated management reporting and preparation of board reports and supporting papers at an executive level
• Previous experience of large multi-currency group consolidations
• Strong communication skills and experience of dealing with senior finance staff
• Good commercial awareness
• Analytical and flexible with meticulous attention to detail
• Previous engineering, construction industry experience would be beneficial
• Two years post qualification experience within a top ten accountancy firm
• A strong team ethic and a desire to share knowledge with the team
• Confident and ambitious with a “can do” attitude
• Capable of challenging existing ways of thinking through use of structured and intelligent reasoning
• Strong communication and judgement skills; including strong report writing and presentation skills
• Committed, energetic, enthusiastic, resilient and collaborative

This role requires a detailed focused, conscientious individual who has a flexible approach and the ability to embrace change within a dynamic and challenging work environment. An ability to effectively manage a team and deliver to deadlines is essential as is the ability to work coherently as part of the wider finance team and a desire to streamline and improve the information flows.

On Offer:
• £70k basic salary
• £5k car allowance
• Company pension