Group Accounting Lead

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Group Accounting Lead to join an international data and analytics group on a 6 month contract. This role is pivotal in streamlining and enhancing their financial processes through standardization and process improvements.

The successful candidate will lead the month-end close process, manage consolidation and eliminations, and drive standardization initiatives. You will play a critical role in supporting our CPS integration and ensuring accurate financial disclosures.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the month-end close process, including establishment of a timetable and control of deficiencies remediation.
• Oversee consolidation and eliminations, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Facilitate the integration of a new acquisition, defining better processes for capturing financials, FTE, intercompany transactions, and loan/interest payments.
• Drive the standardization of month-end processes and implement a close timetable and checklist.
• Provide clarity of deliverables and transitioning guidance to quarterly processes with an emphasis on accounting for accruals.
• Support A&R accounting judgments sign-off and checklist preparation for CFO approval.
• Investigate current financial reporting issues, provide resolution pathways, and ensure alignment of NetSuite with published numbers.
• Collaborate with project roles to manage NetSuite consolidation and elimination processes.
• Conduct Blackline reconciliations to maintain accurate and consistent financial records.

Person Specifications

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA or ACCA)
• Proven experience in a senior accounting role, with a focus on consolidation, eliminations, and month-end close processes.
• Strong command of financial systems, particularly NetSuite and Blackline.
• Ability to identify process improvements and drive standardization.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills, with an ability to engage and influence stakeholders at various levels.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate and timely financial reports.