Group Accounts Manager – Core Accounting, Control & Compliance; Budget

About The Group

We are a diversified, multi-entity industrial group operating across trading, distribution, engineering, and project-based businesses. With multiple legal entities, branches, and business lines, our operations generate high transaction volumes
, complex intercompany flows, and a strong need for disciplined, standardised accounting across the Group.

To strengthen our financial backbone, we are looking for a Group Accounts Manager who will own our books, closing, and consolidation agenda across all entities.

This is a hardcore accounting and control role – not a corporate finance, fundraising, or FP&A position.

The Group Accounts Manager is the custodian of financial records for the entire Group
.

• Design and enforce a common accounting framework across all entities
• Lead the record-to-report (R2R) cycle from entity books to Group consolidation
• Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant accounting across the Group
• Deliver clean, reconciled Trial Balances and reliable Group financials every month
• Act as the key accounting contact for auditors, tax advisors, and internal stakeholders

If you enjoy the engine room of finance – ledgers, reconciliations, intercompany, controls – and want to do it at Group scale
, this role is for you.

• Group Accounting Framework & Policies
  • Establish and maintain Group-wide accounting policies aligned with IFRS/local GAAP and regulatory requirements.
  • Design and govern a harmonised Group Chart of Accounts, enabling consistent reporting across all entities.
  • Define minimum documentation standards for invoices, GRNs, contracts, journals, and credit/debit notes.
  • Ensure all entities apply these policies consistently, and address deviations with entity finance teams.
• Entity-Level Books Integrity & Closing Discipline
  • Oversee the quality of books across all legal entities:
    • Daily postings for sales, purchases, expenses, payroll, journals, provisions, accruals, etc.
    • Correct GL, cost centre, and project coding.
  • Implement a standard monthly and annual closing calendar for all entities, with clear cut-offs and checklists.
  • Ensure clean, reviewed Trial Balances for each entity by a defined working day every month.
  • Perform periodic GL reviews to clear suspense items, fix misclassifications, and resolve abnormal balances.
• Intercompany Accounting & Reconciliations
  • Set standard processes for intercompany transactions (cross-entity sales, shared services, cost recharges, loans/advances).
  • Ensure intercompany entries are properly documented, mirrored, and posted in all relevant entities.
  • Lead intercompany reconciliations, resolve mismatches, and prepare elimination schedules for consolidation.
  • Reduce intercompany noise and ensure Group financials are not distorted by internal imbalances.
• Group Consolidation & Reporting
  • Own the Group consolidation process:
    • Map entity CoAs to Group CoA;
    • Apply appropriate consolidation rules.
    • Eliminate intercompany revenues, costs, and balances.
  • Deliver monthly/quarterly consolidated financials (P&L, Balance Sheet, and, where feasible, Cash Flow).
  • Support management with variance analysis and commentary (month-on-month, year-on-year, budget vs actual).
  • Provide accurate data and explanations for Board packs, lender reporting, and management reviews.
• VAT / Indirect Tax & Basic Regulatory Compliance
  • Coordinate VAT accounting across entities (output VAT, input VAT, imports, reverse charge, VAT reconciliations).
  • Ensure VAT ledgers tie to Trial Balances and filed VAT returns.
  • Provide reconciled schedules and support for VAT filings and address queries with advisors/authorities when needed.
  • Uphold statutory record-keeping and documentation standards from an accounting perspective.
• Audit Readiness & Control Environment
  • Act as the central accounting contact for Group statutory auditors.
  • Coordinate audit schedules, reconciliations, sample support, and responses across entities.
  • Work with internal audit (if present) on accounting, reconciliation, and control-related observations.
  • Track closure of audit findings and management letter points, especially recurring issues.
  • Strengthen controls by embedding:
    • Maker-checker checks;
    • Proper access rights and segregation of…