Financial Reporting Accountant (3645)

Description
***Whilst primarilly remote this role will require some office attendance – at Chester hub or London hub. Please only apply if you are able to attend either of these locations.***

About GBG

GBG is the leading expert in global digital identity. We combine our powerful technology, the most accurate data coverage, and our talented team to deliver award-winning location intelligence, identity verification, and fraud prevention solutions.

With over 30 years’ of experience, we bring together a team of over 1,250 dedicated experts with local industry insight from around the world to make it easy for businesses to identify and verify customers and locations, protecting everyone, everywhere from fraud.

Why you should be@GBG

We make the world a safer place
We trust each other and win together
We are local experts in a global business
We want you to be yourself
We grow when you grow

The Team

Our finance team is central to the success of the business. Our aim is to proactively drive business value through informed and insightful decision making. We work in partnership with the business and are agile and responsive to business needs whilst maintaining a transparent system of effective standards, processes and controls. To support this goal we strive to have the best highly engaged finance professionals in our team. We’re on an exciting journey, and we have the strategies in place to get us to our destination.

The Role

As part of a UK finance team, this role will have the opportunity to really make a mark on the future success of GBG, and your record of achievements. Working from our Chester headquarters the role will report to the Financial Reporting Manager within this fast paced and acquisitive organisation.

What you will do

Assist the Financial Reporting Manager many of the below tasks
The preparation of the monthly group results and finance board report
The preparation of the interim and annual external financial reporting, including the annual report
The monthly group consolidation, liaising with the finance teams of the UK and overseas subsidiaries
Management of the intercompany reconciliation, recharges and settlement
Be a point of contact for the external auditor
Be responsible for European entities including accounting entries and liaison with local finance team members
Maintain the fixed asset registers for European entities
Have responsibility for posting European payrolls
Assist with developing group reporting with all the tools available
Challenge existing business processes and assist in developing a culture of continuous improvement
Special projects as requested

Requirements
What We’re Looking For

Qualified or strong part qualified accountant, with strong academics, able to demonstrate good analytical ability in a plc environment
A good knowledge of multicurrency and further exposure to an industry environment and accounts preparation under IFRS is highly advantageous
Excellent organisation and planning skills with the ability to work to strict deadlines whilst maintaining quality
Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Workday Adaptive Planning and Power BI would be a distinct advantage

Benefits
To find out more

Click here to see more about what’s important to us, including our flexible working policy, our commitment to ESG, I&D and much more.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits, drop an email to [email protected] and we’ll be in touch!

Make life@GBG work for you.

Diversity & Inclusivity:

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing fair opportunities for everyone regardless of age, gender race/ ethnicity, sex, religion, age, nationality, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Everybody is welcome and our inclusion and diversity programme, be/yourself, is designed to ensure that you can thrive. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Specialist if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.