Acquisitions Accountant
Sewell Wallis
Stockport, GB
Sewell Wallis is looking for an Acquisitions Accountant to help merge and consolidate accounts to a larger group format. You'll need to be an ACA or ACCA qualified Accountant, technically strong, with excellent attention to detail and experience working in a large complex group structure, with lots of legal entities (20+). You'll need to have experience with large group consolidations and cash flow statements, onboarding of assets, treasury management experience and have a good working IFRS understanding and be able to lead on annual group reporting. You'll need to be a confident communicator who is able to advise and present information to the senior leadership team and board directors. This role offers a really exciting and diverse role, to blend business partnering, technical skills and group reporting in a forward-thinking, high-achieving setting. The business based in Stockport, Greater Manchester, is currently undergoing a period of year on year growth, mostly led by acquisitions, hence the requirement for this role. This construction and property business is PE backed and boasts state of the art offices, a forward thinking and collaborative mind-set offering a really enjoyable and progressive workplace which offers plenty of development and yet maintains an excellent work life balance. What will you be doing? Large scale group reporting, group consolidations and cash flow statements. Building of new consolidations and accounting for new legal entities via acquisition, as determined by the growth. Onboarding of new assets. Provide financial support to non-finance managers, offering insights and data to support growth. Presentation of monthly and quarterly management accounts to SLT and boards. Debt monitoring, management, and compliance. Treasury management and cash forecasts alongside the treasury team. Annual report and audit lead for entities. Assisting in developing controls and checking data accuracy within the system. Handling tax matters (such as VAT and CIT returns). What skills are we looking for? ACA or ACCA qualified Technical knowledge. Ideally, a background in practice and/or external audit. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Management skills, as this role will require you to oversee the work of a small team of management accountants. What's on offer? Competitive salary up to £75,000 FTE. Annual bonus scheme, up to 20%. Flexible hybrid working - 2 days WFH. Easy to reach office, 5-minute walk from Stockport train station. Free parking. Private healthcare. Send us your CV below, or contact Inci Evcil for more information. To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.