Financial Accountant

Role overview: 

Are you a proactive, self-starting Financial Accountant ready to make an impact in a fast-paced, evolving environment? Join Tes Global, a leader in education technology, where you will play a pivotal role in maintaining financial integrity, ensuring compliance, and supporting growth initiatives. Reporting to the Group Financial Reporting Manager, you will be instrumental in preparing financial statements, assisting with audits, and driving process improvements across our global operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with annual statutory audits and prepare statutory accounts for all UK entities.
• Manage monthly management accounts, including central cost P&Ls and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Contribute to group consolidations and support acquisition accounting processes.
• Oversee payroll postings and staff cost reporting.
• Collaborate on multi-currency cash forecasting and treasury management.
• Support the Tax Manager with corporation tax computations and VAT returns.
• Partner with budget holders for annual budget preparation and ad hoc financial support.

What will you need to succeed?

• ACA/ACCA qualified with at least 1 year of post-qualification experience.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS standards.
• Audit experience in practice or industry, with a solid understanding of external audit processes.
• Proven ability to manage deadlines in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience in group consolidations and knowledge of acquisition accounting.
• Excellent time management, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Adaptable and comfortable in a changing environment with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and familiar with ERP systems.

What do you get in return?

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• 5% pension after probation
• State of the art offices
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
• Free eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP (Employee assistance programme)
• Monthly Tes Socials
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?

Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management. 

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education. 

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine. 

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. 

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability.  We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.

Ready to contribute to impactful change in education technology? Apply now to join our dynamic finance team!

Visit www.tes.com/tesglobal to learn more.