Group Finance Assistant Accountant

Overview

Role: Group Finance Assistant Accountant

Location: Shoreham-by-Sea, UK - Hybrid

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 plus benefits

Role ID: 2024-2537

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Role Purpose

Ricardo is seeking a proactive and motivated individual to join its Group finance team in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. This role provides the opportunity to become a key member of a dynamic, international team, offering broad experience in both monthly management accounting and external financial reporting. The successful candidate will build strong working relationships across the Group and with external partners, such as tax advisers and auditors. This position is designed for someone who could provide cover and progress into other Group finance roles or finance positions within business units.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in preparing half-year and full-year consolidated financial statements, including analysis for notes and subsidiary statutory accounts.
• Administer reporting timetables, coordinating inputs from business units, collating data, and liaising with other workstreams.
• Support the compilation of the Group annual report.
• Prepare subsidiary statutory accounts.
• Contribute to the analysis for half-year and full-year results presentations.
• Support month-end management accounts and Group consolidation, including Group-level postings and adjustments.
• Prepare analysis for monthly Board reporting and external reporting.
• Maintain and design month-end accounting system reports.
• Participate in Group finance projects, focusing on process improvement and control enhancements.
• Assist with compiling the annual budget and strategic plan.
  
  

Skills And Behaviours

• Part-qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA, CA).
• Proficient in Excel; experience with consolidation systems is a plus.
• Strong analytical and written communication skills.
• Ability to plan and manage workload, meeting deadlines.
• Highly organized with attention to detail.
• Team player with a focus on continuous process improvement.
  
  

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via [email protected] if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.