Senior Technical Accountant - Integration & M&A
The Opportunity
Play a pivotal role at the centre of significant business transformation. As our Technical Accountant, you will provide specialist accounting expertise to support complex transactions, business restructuring and integration activity across the Group. This role focuses on ensuring appropriate accounting treatment, clear financial outcomes and alignment between commercial intent and accounting delivery.
Supporting a major merger initiative, you will work across transaction execution, completion and integration to assess accounting implications and support implementation of outcomes. You will partner closely with Finance, Actuarial, Legal and HR to interpret transaction structures and legal agreements, translating these into clear accounting positions, financial impacts and practical implementation requirements.
This is a highly visible role where you will support board materials, completion activities and integration planning to ensure outcomes are robust, controlled and aligned.
If you are a technically strong accountant with experience supporting transactions, restructures or integration activity, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic environment.
How will you make an impact?
Provide technical accounting advice across transactions and restructuring activity, including purchase accounting and balance sheet impacts
Support the preparation and review of completion accounts and key financial adjustments
Interpret transaction structures and assess accounting implications across entities
Partner with Legal to review and inform agreements to support appropriate accounting outcomes
Ensure alignment between any contractual terms and accounting treatment
Support integration activity by identifying accounting impacts, data requirements and reporting implications
Partner across Finance and Actuarial teams to align accounting outcomes to commercial intent
Identify risks, gaps or misalignment in proposed structures and outcomes
Support the preparation of board materials, clearly articulating accounting implications and key judgements
Document accounting positions, assumptions and rationale to support governance and audit requirements
About you
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate the following:
Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret complex accounting and commercial issues
Clear and concise communication skills, with the ability to simplify technical concepts
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment
High attention to detail, with sound judgement on material issues
Strong stakeholder management skills across multiple functions
Solid understanding of IFRS, including acquisition and restructuring accounting
Experience interpreting legal agreements and assessing accounting outcomes
Understanding of completion processes and financial close impacts
Ability to translate accounting requirements into practical business and financial outcomes
Experience in financial services (life insurance highly regarded)
Experience supporting transactions, restructures or integration activity
Exposure to completion accounts and financial close processes
Experience working with Legal, HR and external advisors
Experience preparing governance or board materials
CA or CPA qualification
