Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Group Financial Accountant to take a hands-on role across our UK and European entities. You will manage individual entity accounting and complex monthly Group consolidations, working across multiple entities, currencies and European stock locations.

The role covers Group reporting, intercompany accounting, inventory, European VAT, cashflow, budgeting, forecasting and financial controls, working closely with external accounting partners across Europe.

We are looking for a qualified, analytical and commercially minded accountant with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate discrepancies and take ownership.

European multi-entity consolidation and experience in a product-based business are essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly consolidated Group management accounts across multiple European entities.
• Own the accounting and reporting for individual European companies.
• Manage complex intercompany accounting, reconciliations and consolidation adjustments.
• Prepare consolidated reporting for the CEO, senior management and external lenders.
• Manage Xero ledgers across multiple entities, including key journals and accounting entries.
• Manage and support European VAT compliance, Intrastat and other relevant tax reporting.
• Work closely with external accounting partners in countries including Germany and Spain, reconciling local accounts to Group records.
• Maintain strong balance sheet controls and monthly reconciliations across all entities.
• Manage inventory accounting and valuation, including reconciliation between systems and across European stock locations.
• Act as the key finance contact for the annual Group audit and statutory accounts.
• Prepare and reconcile intercompany transactions and balances.
• Manage critical weekly Group cashflow reporting, with a strong focus on working capital.
• Prepare the annual budget across all entities, consolidating P&Ls, balance sheets and cashflow projections into the Group budget.
• Manage monthly forecasts across individual entities and at consolidated Group level.

Key Skills & Experience

Essential

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven experience of European multi-entity consolidation.
• Experience working for a product-based business, ideally distribution, wholesale, FMCG, retail or another stockholding environment.
• Complex consolidation experience across multiple European entities.
• Strong understanding of intercompany accounting and reconciliation.
• Experience with European VAT, ideally across multiple jurisdictions.
• Strong inventory accounting and stock reconciliation experience.
• Excellent balance sheet control and reconciliation skills.
• Advanced Excel skills, including managing complex consolidation models.
• Experience working with external auditors and supporting Group statutory accounts.
• Strong understanding of UK GAAP and/or IFRS.
• Experience with cashflow, working capital and forecasting.

Important

Product / distribution experience is essential. We are specifically looking for someone who has worked in a business that buys, holds, moves and sells physical products, rather than a predominantly service-based organisation.

Experience of European entity consolidation is also essential. Candidates with only UK entity consolidation experience are unlikely to be suitable.

You will need to be comfortable working through complex reconciliations, identifying discrepancies and driving them through to resolution.

Most importantly, you will bring a hands-on, analytical and determined approach, with the confidence to work across multiple entities and European finance partners.

Why Join Us?

• Working with a business that has shown consistent growth over the last 12 years
• Work with market-leading brands across cosmetics, skincare, haircare and baby care
• Hybrid working, based from our Bracknell offices 3 days a week
• Healthcare cash plan and pension
• 25 days' holiday, increasing to 29 days with length of service
• Free on-site gym, paddle tennis and parking
• Opportunity to play a key role in a growing international Group and develop with the business

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