Senior Group Accountant

Role Overview

Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, is recruiting a Senior Group Accountant for its Group Finance team. The role is pivotal in leading the Group’s consolidation process, supporting the month‑end close, driving control improvements, and serving as a key interface between Group Finance and the wider Ontic business.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Group’s month‑end close process, ensuring all activities are completed accurately and on time.
• Act as the primary reviewer of work performed by the Group Accountant.
• Oversee accounting and balances recorded in the Group’s holding stack, ensuring balances are reviewed regularly, accurate, and supportable.
• Own the Group consolidation process, including preparation and posting of monthly consolidation elimination journals.
• Take responsibility for the Group’s intercompany matrix, ensuring intercompany eliminations are accurately booked and transacted in the consolidation.
• Calculate, reconcile, and enter required consolidation entries into OneStream.
• Review and oversee the overall consolidation process.
• Own Group cost recharges, including monthly Group cost recharges and annual insurance and audit fee recharges.
• Act as a key interface between the Group’s tax teams and Group Finance.
• Ensure movements in the Group’s exchange translation reserve are accurate and clearly understood.
• Prepare reporting for the Group’s pension scheme.
• Own monthly reporting activities to FP&A and lenders, including monthly results, exceptional items, Group costs, and debt‑like items.
• Partner with Internal Audit and play a lead role in implementing control improvements across the Group.
• Identify process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness.
• Partner with Treasury to ensure the accuracy of below‑the‑line elements of the cash‑flow forecast.
• Capture and account for late audit and site adjustments.
• Oversee monthly cash‑flow statement reporting and prepare monthly cash‑flow statement adjustments.
• Maintain the monthly adjusted EBITDA model, ensuring exceptional costs and provisions are appropriately understood and reported.
• Support monthly investor reporting, including KPIs, debt and debt‑like items, and PF EBITDA forecasts.
• Support external audit activity, preparing documentation and explaining consolidated numbers to auditors.
• Provide technical accounting support to Group Finance colleagues.
• Assist with US GAAP to IFRS and UK GAAP to IFRS conversions.
• Review and oversee the work of junior colleagues.
• Support ad‑hoc projects and wider process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Graduate qualified accountant status, with a strong technical accounting background.
• Considerable experience owning the preparation or audit of consolidations.
• Strong attention to detail and a track record of delivering accurate and timely reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with strong written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work effectively with finance and non‑finance stakeholders across a complex organisation.
• Proactive approach to identifying and implementing process and control improvements.
• Ability to operate confidently in a fast‑moving, demanding, and evolving business environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Post‑qualification experience.
• Experience reporting under IFRS, UK GAAP, and US GAAP.
• Experience working with OneStream or similar consolidation software.
• Hands‑on tax experience.
• Experience working within, or auditing, private‑equity backed businesses.
• Understanding of commercial business drivers.
• Experience within the aerospace industry or a similar complex manufacturing environment.
• Business partnering skills.

About Ontic

Ontic is a leading manufacturer of components used in civil and military aircraft. As an OEM for critical parts, we provide continuity, availability, and longevity for our customers’ fleets, supporting them for a lifetime of flight. Through in‑house manufacturing, engineering, MRO, spares, and AOG support, we help keep aircraft certified, safe, and operational.

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