Group Accounting Supervisor

3 weeks ago


Wakefield, United Kingdom City & Guilds Full time

**Group Accounting Supervisor**:
This role will ensure accurate and timely completion of monthly reporting and statutory compliance cycles, and will be responsible for the consolidation of individual financial returns to support this. You'll ensure the Group’s financial position and any risks are being well-controlled and accurately represented, and ensure smooth period close processes and audits.

City & Guilds as a whole is transforming the way it operates, with a focus on developing our regional presence, organising teams so they operate more efficiently and delivering an improved quality of outputs. You will work as part of our Group Accounting function within our Corporate Services.

This role will be on a hybrid basis with a mix of home and office however you will need to be within reasonable commuting distance of our Wakefield Office.

This appointment will be made on merit.
- Business Unit
- Group Finance
- Experience
- Experienced
- Salary
- Competitive
- Type of role
- Permanent
- Full-time or part-time
- Full-time
- Location - Country
- UK
- Location - City
- Wakefield
- Closing date
- 25/01/2023
- Vacancy ref
- 7276
- Documents
- Role Profile
(PDF, 176.93kb)

**About the role**:
Responsible for Group financial accounting activities across SAP and other platforms, you'll take a key role in the accounting close process, balance sheet control and month end reviews. You'll be responsible for reporting using the group’s consolidation tools and take a key role in the Group’s year end cycle and external audits.

You'll also have shared responsibility for Group tax and VAT compliance and ad hoc business partnering support. This role will also be involved in defining and communicating group accounting, tax policies, and ensuring compliance.

**About you**:
It's important that you have experience of using multiple accounting packages and consolidation tools, as well as having strong Excel skills to support routine and ad hoc reporting. You must also have great time management skills and the ability to meet challenging deadlines.

**Our story and mission**:
Our vision is for a world in which everyone has the skills and opportunities to succeed. We support almost five million people each year to develop skills that help them into a job, develop on that job and to prepare for their next job. As a charity, we’re proud that everything we do is focused on achieving this purpose.

Through our assessment and credentialing, corporate learning and technical training offers, we partner with our customers to deliver work-based learning programmes that build competency to support better prospects for people, organisations and wider society. We create flexible learning pathways that support lifelong employability, because we believe that people deserve the opportunity to (re)train and (re)learn again and again - gaining new skills at every stage of life, regardless of where they start.

At the heart of our business sits the City & Guilds Foundation which amplifies our purpose by helping to remove barriers to getting into a job, celebrating best practice on the job, and advocating for jobs of the future.

We were founded in 1878 by the City of London and the trade guilds of the time, to help people, organisations and economies to develop their skills for growth.

Our rich experience means we’re uniquely positioned to understand the future of work and learning. And we continually evolve to develop and deliver skills for the workplace of the future. Today, as well as qualifications and assessment, we offer digital credentialing, e-learning technologies, executive leadership development, technical training and consultancy.

**What we offer**:
We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, engaging and market-leading organisation with opportunities to develop your existing skills and explore new ones.

You’ll receive an excellent benefits package which typically includes a great base salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension, private healthcare, volunteering opportunities and much more.

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