Senior Group Reporting Accountant

Dartford, England, United Kingdom

8/13/2025

The role will involve taking an active role in the supporting the delivery of the year-end financial statements and monthly management accounts reporting. This role will provide capacity to continue to drive the financial to management accounts alignment and broaden the group control environment. It will also support the long-term contract accounting reviews across the business and preparation of technical papers/assessments for the Group.

About Laing O'Rourke

Laing O'Rourke is a privately owned, internationally focused engineering enterprise with world-class capabilities spanning the entire client value chain. Laing O'Rourke has operations in the UK, Australia, and the Middle East.

The company operates in investment and development services, programme management services, design and engineering consultancy, manufacturing and construction solutions, infrastructure and buildings management and support services. Its projects span a range of sectors including, building, transport, power, utilities & waste, oil & gas and mining & natural resources. It is the largest privately owned construction company in the UK.

Main Accountabilities

This role will report to the Group Chief Accountant and will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the year end accounts and monthly management accounts. The team's key deliverables include:

• Preparation and review of the Group consolidated financial accounts (x3)
• Preparation and review of the UK statutory accounts
• Preparation of technical accounting papers to support the year end audit process
• Preparation of a small number of monthly management accounts
• Review of accounting position on long term contracts in line with IFRS 15
• Supporting the testing of the control environment
• Supporting the covenant and other external stakeholder reporting
• Supporting other ad hoc report preparation and tasks as required
  
  

This role requires a detailed focussed, conscientious individual who has a flexible approach and the ability to embrace change within a dynamic and challenging work environment. An ability to effectively manage a team and deliver to deadlines is essential as is the ability to work coherently as part of the wider finance team and a desire to streamline and improve the information flows.

Essential

Relevant Experience

• Highly numerate and financially literate –qualified accountant (ICAEW, ICAS, CIMA or equivalent)
• Previous experience of delivering to predetermined deadlines
• Previous experience of consolidated management reporting and preparation of board reports and supporting papers at an executive level
• Previous experience of large multi-currency group consolidations
• Strong communication skills and experience of dealing with senior finance staff
• Good commercial awareness
• Analytical and flexible with meticulous attention to detail
  
  

Desirable

• Previous engineering, construction industry experience would be beneficial
• Two years post qualification experience within a top ten accountancy firm
  
  

Personal Attributes

• A strong team ethic and a desire to share knowledge with the team
• Confident and ambitious with a “can do” attitude
• Capable of challenging existing ways of thinking through use of structured and intelligent reasoning
• Strong communication and judgement skills; including strong report writing and presentation skills
• Committed, energetic, enthusiastic, resilient and collaborative
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to build relationships & influence decisions.
  
  

Don't match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

About Us

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

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