Group Accountant
Role: Group Accountant
Department: Finance
Hours & Working Day: Monday – Friday, Flexi-time, 08:00AM to 4:30PM or 08:30AM to 5:00PM
Location: Gloucester with some travel to India and US.
Salary: £50,000 per annum
Benefits: Free lunch on Thursdays, Health Cash Plan, Retail discounts and Pension Salary Sacrifice upon successful completion of probation.
Responsibilities
Group Consolidation & Reporting
- Prepare consolidated monthly management accounts for the Group.
- Ensure accurate intercompany reconciliations and eliminations.
- Produce financial reports, variance analysis, and commentary for senior stakeholders.
Balance Sheet & Financial Controls
- Perform and review balance sheet reconciliations across all entities, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Prepare and post monthly journals (including accruals, prepayments, and other adjustments) for both the UK and US entities.
- Maintain compliance with statutory reporting requirements and relevant accounting standards (IFRS/UK GAAP).
- Support preparation of annual consolidated financial statements.
- Liaise with external auditors and manage audit deliverables.
Management Information & Analysis
- Provide insight and analysis to support strategic decision-making.
- Assist with budgeting and forecasting processes at both group level and individual entity level.
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance reporting efficiency.
Business Partnering
- Work closely with the Financial Controller (UK) and Controllers in the US and India to support business needs and ensure timely and accurate submission of accounts.
- Collaborate with the wider group finance team to ensure consistency and accuracy of reporting.
- Support senior management with ad-hoc analysis and financial modelling.
Skills & Qualifications
Essential
- ACA or ACCA qualified (first-time movers from practice or with industry experience).
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, with experience in group consolidation, reconciliations, and journal postings.
- Excellent Excel skills and familiarity with financial reporting systems.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
Desirable
- Exposure to multi-currency consolidations.
- Experience with Brightpearl, Shopify, and other ERP systems.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders.
Pooky is all about beautiful, decorative lighting. Lights that look as though they cost a fortune, but don’t.
We’re a tight-knit team of super-committed individuals who love what we do and who (mostly!) do it with a smile and a sense of humour. We’re passionate about beautiful lighting and we’re unbelievably proud to be part of Pooky. We love bringing beautiful and affordable lighting to as many people as we can.
As a company, we also recognise the responsibility on us to do what we do responsibly, ethically, fairly and with as little impact on the environment as possible. We aim to design products that will last, for their quality of build and for our avoidance of skittish fads. As an e-commerce company, we know that our customers will judge us on the packaging we use and we do our best to tread the line between wasteful packaging and broken products, and all the environmental costs of remaking and re-sending them.
