Analyst -Technical Accounting & Transactions

Role overview

Transaction responsibilities

• Support transaction finance workstreams from pre-deal through sign-to-close and post-close stabilisation.
• Help implement transaction reporting requirements, timetables, controls, and documentation.
• Prepare analyses, accounting entries, and schedules for acquisition accounting, Opening Balance Sheets, and IFRS 3 or IFRS 5 matters for senior review.
• Prepare transaction reporting instructions, presentations, and finance stakeholder training materials.
• Coordinate inputs across Corporate Development, Tax, Treasury, Consolidation, and other corporate functions.
• Review deal documents and summarize accounting, reporting, and control implications.
• Gather, validate, and reconcile financial information, including royalties, milestones, and transitional service arrangements.
• Maintain audit-ready records under SOX and transaction governance requirements.
• Support finance-system, reporting-hierarchy, and master-data updates, including approvals.
• Assist with finance cut-over, testing, reconciliations, post-close stabilisation, and prompt escalation of transaction risks.

Broader GTAA work

• Support CIRB assessments of Capex, significant Opex contracts, and other complex transactions.
• Contribute to accounting research, technical analysis, papers, business accounting queries, Group policies, guidance, and training.

Essential qualifications and experience

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline.
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent), or part-qualified and actively progressing toward qualification.
• Good understanding of IFRS and relevant experience in audit, accounting advisory, financial reporting, controllership, or transaction support.
• Strong analytical and reconciliation skills, clear communication, collaboration, organisation, prioritisation, attention to detail, and a control mindset.

Preferred experience and tools

• Experience or exposure to business combinations, transaction accounting, or external reporting is preferred.
• Familiarity with SAP Financial Consolidation or similar systems and awareness of SOX controls and audit evidence are preferred.
• Strong Excel skills are preferred.