Group IFRS Accountant

Group Financial Accountant

Role Overview

Unreconciled is recruiting a Group Financial Accountant to embed into a client’s finance function and own monthly consolidation of a 40-entity group under IFRS.

This is hands-on consolidation work: manual consolidations, group eliminations, acquisition accounting and consolidated reporting, delivered to the client’s month-end deadlines. You own execution. Technical review and sign-off run through the Unreconciled Controller layer.

Key Responsibilities

Consolidation and group accounting

• Prepare monthly consolidated P&L and balance sheet for 40 entities under IFRS, including all manual journals and adjustments.
• Identify, document and post intercompany transactions, eliminations, transfers, dividends and intra-group profit.
• Maintain consolidation schedules, supporting workpapers and audit trails for every adjustment.
• Consolidate newly acquired entities, including acquisition accounting and purchase price allocation support.

Financial reporting

• Prepare group consolidated financial statements and notes under IFRS.
• Manage consolidation deadlines and deliver consolidated management accounts on time.
• Prepare consolidation variance analysis and reconciliations.

Systems and process

• Configure and run the group’s consolidation and FP&A tooling in Planful and Datarails.
• Build and maintain consolidation files and workpapers in Caseware.
• Streamline consolidation, improve data quality and reduce manual effort over time.

Audit and compliance

• Support annual audits across subsidiaries and the group consolidation.
• Support covenant compliance reporting and ad-hoc projects as the group scales.

Essential Requirements

• Caseware: building and maintaining consolidation files and workpapers.
• Planful and Datarails: hands-on configuration and running of consolidation and FP&A processes.
• Proven manual consolidation of multi-entity groups under IFRS.
• Group eliminations: intercompany, dividends, profit eliminations.
• Advanced Excel and consolidation modelling.
• 5+ years in consolidation or group accounting.

Preferred

• Technology, software or media background.
• Multi-ERP consolidation experience.
• Xero, QuickBooks or NetSuite exposure.

How You Work

• Office-based in Ahmedabad or Kochi, aligned to UK hours.
• Embedded in the client’s Slack or Teams. Fast response, proactive flagging of issues.
• Part of an Unreconciled delivery team with Controller and Partner oversight.

Soft Skills

• Meticulous and organised, able to run several consolidation strands at once.
• Clear communicator with non-finance stakeholders.
• Self-sufficient and proactive in a fast-moving group structure.

Skills: group accounting,reporting,consolidation,ifrs