Senior Group Accountant
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Senior Group Accountant
📍 Chippenham, Wiltshire | 🏠 Hybrid – 2 days per week in the office
👥 Global Finance Team | 📈 Career‑defining role in a growing PE Consumer Healthcare business
Join Alliance and help shape the financial future of a global consumer healthcare business
Alliance is entering a pivotal phase of growth and we’re looking for a commercially curious, technically strong qualified accountant to join us as Senior Group Accountant.
This is a high‑impact role offering real ownership of the UK’s main trading entity, exposure to international operations, group consolidation, and statutory reporting, as well as the opportunity to lead and develop a small team early in your post‑qualification career.
Are you ready to step into a broader, more influential group role, this is a fantastic opportunity to accelerate your development?
What you’ll be doing
Financial Accounting (approx. 40%)
- Lead financial reporting for Alliance Pharmaceuticals Limited, the Group’s main UK trading entity
- Own month‑end journals, accruals, prepayments and supporting schedules
- Drive the month‑end close using FloQast, ensuring timely completion, high‑quality balance sheet reconciliations and audit‑ready documentation
- Prepare and review complex balance sheet reconciliations
- Support group consolidations and board‑level variance analysis and commentary
Statutory Reporting & Audit (approx. 30%)
- Support the preparation and review of the Annual Report and Group Consolidated Financial Statements in line with IFRS
- Contribute to technical accounting projects and strengthening financial controls
- Act as a key point of contact for external auditors and manage audit deliverables
- Lead and coordinate statutory audits across overseas entities including Ireland, Germany, Thailand, Philippines and Hong Kong
Leadership, Projects & Business Partnering (approx. 30%)
- Line manage and develop 1–2 direct reports, including objective setting, coaching and review
- Partner with Supply Chain, Tax and wider business teams on invoicing, regulatory submissions and VAT / Corporation Tax support
- Deliver P&L and performance analysis using Prophix
- Support integration of acquisitions and divestments into Group finance systems and processes
What we’re looking for
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with 2–3 years PQE (industry or practice)
- Strong technical grounding across P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
- Experience producing work to audit‑ready standards with strong financial controls mindset
- Confident Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, data manipulation and presentation)
- Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, international, multi‑entity environment
- Natural collaborator with the confidence to engage stakeholders across the business
Why join Alliance?
- Broad Group exposure early in your PQ career
- International scope and audit leadership opportunities
- Genuine people management and development responsibility
- Hybrid working with a collaborative Finance team based in Chippenham
- A role that balances technical depth, leadership and commercial impact
- Great benefits including up to 25% bonus potential, up to 10% pension contribution, BUPA, Life Assurance, Cycle and Electric car schemes, etc
- Work life balance - 25 days holiday, plus celebration and volunteering days, and option to buy an additional 10 days holiday