Group Accountant

Rutherford Cross is delighted to be partnered with a high-growth entrepreneurial business in Lanarkshire to appoint the newly created role of Group Accountant. The business has 10x in size in the last 4 years through a combination of M&A activity and organic growth. Reporting to the Head of Reporting, this represents an opportunity to join a hugely successful business at a key point in its growth trajectory.

This business has a demonstrable track record of developing staff, and it is foreseen that the appointed individual will have the opportunity to grow with the business and develop a wide variety of skills in the role.

Ideally, we are looking to engage with individuals who qualified in big 4 / mid-tier audit and have since gained some post-qualification experience within an industry setting. My client is looking for people who know their way around a set of accounts but also possess the interpersonal skills/commercial acumen to deal with non-financial stakeholders and produce meaningful MI to influence business decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring adequate planning and compliance with statutory returns and accounting regulations. Including, but not limited to, areas of VAT, Corporation Tax, R&D and intragroup trading
• Supporting with the reviews and publishing of annual reports and policies
• Consolidation of the monthly management accounts – P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow Statement. Handling the removal of intragroup revenue, debtors and creditors for accurate reporting to the Board and stakeholders
• Consolidation of Group cashflow forecasts, performing Net Working Capital reviews and analysis to support Group short and long-term objectives including investments, budgeting and expenditure
• Reporting Balance Sheet trends and analysis and ownership of performing quarterly reviews with stakeholders
• Ensuring documentation is in place over the internal controls and assisting with the collation of SAO return documentation
• Monitoring compliance within any banking or funding covenants set and ensuring that these are considered as part of the budgeting and forecasting cycles
• Oversight of the Invoice Financing month-end reconciliations, reviewing reconciliations ahead of submission and forecasting the cashflow impact on any expected movements
• Support on interim and year-end audit preparation to ensure a clean audit for the businesses
• Exposure to the Commercial team and their monthly reporting packs. Ability to interrogate their commentary and outlooks
• Play a pivotal role in budgeting and forecasting activities, this will include P&L, balance sheet and cash availability projections
• Lead continuous improvement in the business, seeking to maximise efficiency and timeliness of reporting
• Working collaboratively with various departments, supporting the business with ad-hoc costing and financial support where required

Our client is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.