Group Reporting Accountant (14 Month FTC)

Kerv Digital; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Please Note: It's a Hybrid Working role 2 days in the Central London Office in Liverpool St.

About Us:
At Kerv, we leverage the power of technology to help our customers stay ahead. We do this through our brilliant people who focus relentlessly on the customer and their needs, delivering world-class cloud solutions and digital transformation. Launched in July 2020, Kerv is a next-generation 'customer-first, cloud-first' provider, created to help customers achieve successful business outcomes in a new digital era. We are undergoing an exciting period of transformation and growth following the merger of highly successful organisations with further acquisitions in the pipeline. The finance team is central to partnering with business leaders to provide accurate, timely and quality information to support their growth plans.

About the Role:

1. Reporting to Head of Financial Reporting and Controls and being a key team member of financial accounting team, and key contributor in the improvement and streamlining of financial business processes across entities within the group.
2. Be responsible for financial accounting for certain entities within the group.
3. Coaching, developing and management of junior management accountants.
4. Performing consolidation and monthly group reporting processes, including posting consolidation journals and ensuring the accuracy of intercompany matrix.
5. Working closely with the wider financial accounting and commercial finance to drive business process improvements and deliver group level analysis, projects and results.
6. Prepare financial statements for certain entities, and assist in preparation of Group consolidated financial reports.
7. Support with the interim, year-end audit.
8. Working closely with the wider financial accounting and commercial finance to drive business process improvements.

Your Part to Play:

1. Be responsible for the consolidation of the group and the preparation of group/single entity financial statements.
2. Lead the accounting and financial reporting for certain entities within the group, including monthly balance sheet reconciliations and profit reviews.
3. Lead the accounting and financial reporting for certain entities within the group, including monthly balance sheet reconciliations and profit reviews and maintaining fixed asset register.
4. Preparation of monthly management accounts in accordance with revenue recognition policies and applicable accounting standards.
5. Preparation of monthly divisional financial reports with variance analysis and commentary. This includes Customer/project level reporting covering revenue and margin by product.
6. Ensure compliance with internal processes and controls, and with external regulatory requirements.
7. Involved with the annual forecasts and budget preparation where necessary.
8. Assist in preparation of weekly reports e.g., cash forecasts where necessary.

Other Responsibilities:

• Jointly manage relationships with the group's external auditors.
• Process improvements and ongoing development of processes, systems and procedures.
• Interface with billing to ensure outputs are accurate and can be accounted for appropriately.
• Management of junior team members.
• Continuous development of relationships with members of commercial finance team and project team.

All About You:

1. ACA or equivalent qualified accountant from Top 10 practice with at least 2-year post-qualified experience, ideally within the industry.
2. Good technical knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRS, particularly around revenue recognition.
3. Having experience of working in an IT/ Telco industry with exposure to best practice.
4. Excellent attention to detail.
5. Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset, comfortable in working with both finance and non-finance team members.
6. Experience of working both independently and as part of a wider team, ability to effectively lead, manage and develop team.
7. A high-quality result driven individual, with strong problem-solving abilities.
8. Ability to deliver practical solutions and drive genuine business improvements.
9. Having experience of accounting system implementation and improvement would be beneficial.
10. Solid MS Office Excel knowledge.

You will live the Kerv values ...
• Do the Right Thing
• Build Future
• Think Customer First
• Team is everything
• Spread good vibes

At Kerv, we're building something special and we're building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.