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Senior Group Accountant

Grafton Banks Limited
Posted a month ago, valid for 2 days
Location

Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 6JE, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Grafton Banks is seeking a Senior Group Accountant in Maidenhead, offering a salary of £65-75,000 plus benefits depending on experience.
  • The role requires 1-4 years of post-qualified experience as a fully qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA).
  • The successful candidate will assist with group acquisitions, streamline reporting processes, and ensure accurate consolidation across the group.
  • Key responsibilities include supporting year-end statutory accounts, preparing monthly balance sheet analyses, and mentoring junior team members.
  • This position offers excellent career progression opportunities as part of succession planning for the Financial Controller role.

Senior Group Accountant

Maidenhead (1-2 days per week)

£65-75,000 plus benefits (DOE)

Grafton Banks is representing a progressive and acquisitive group £50m to fill a newly created Senior Group Accountant role to assist in group acquisitions and play a role in shaping the business moving forward. The firm has cutting edge technology at its heart, is carbon neutral, and operates with high integrity.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, we are seeking an experienced Senior Accountant to drive financial excellence by leading acquisitions, streamlining reporting processes, and ensuring accurate consolidation across the group.

With a strong analytical mindset and a proactive approach, you will help implement key financial controls, support year-end and monthly reporting, and collaborate with external auditors—all while contributing to our vision of taking the business to the next level.

Responsibilities Include:

  • To assist with future acquisitions for the group and integrate the entities as part of the current group and financial reporting systems
  • To support the completion of year end statutory accounts for individual subsidiaries and the consolidation process
  • To support the monthly management accounts process ensuring timely and accurate reporting to key stakeholders – involving trading subsidiaries as well as holding companies and overall consolidation for the group
  • To prepare monthly analysis of balance sheet accounts, including payables and debtors’ analysis
  • To assist with the implementation of key controls and processes within the group
  • Business Partner across Finance and the wider business to support and challenge where required
  • Mentor Junior Team Members

Essential Skills Required –

  • Fully Qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA)
  • 1-4 years post qualified experience
  • Financial accounting / group accounting experience
  • Be ambitious, hungry and keen to grow in a developing and ever-changing organisation.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a professional, aspiring qualified Accountant. You will be rewarded with a competitive salary and excellent career progression, as the role forms part of succession planning for the Financial Controller role.

For more information and the Job Description, please send your cv and home postcode (essential) to .

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.