Group Financial Accountant
Northern Data Group provides vertically integrated AI infrastructure, including Taiga Cloud AI compute services and Ardent Data Centers. It serves enterprises, AI companies, cloud providers, research organizations, and other customers with high-performance AI and HPC workloads. The website states that Northern Data is now part of Quake AI.
Funding history
About Northern Data Group
Northern Data Group operates advanced full-stack AI infrastructure, combining high-density data centers with an AI cloud software layer. Its Taiga Cloud offering provides GPU and bare-metal compute, storage, networking, managed Kubernetes and SLURM services, while Ardent Data Centers provides colocation and modular data-center infrastructure. Its services target organizations requiring scalable, secure, high-performance infrastructure for AI, high-performance computing, cloud, research, and latency-sensitive workloads. The website states that Northern Data is now part of Quake AI, with accounts, services, and billing unchanged.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will support month-end and quarter-end group close, group consolidation, annual reporting, audit deliverables, intercompany accounting, and technical accounting. You will maintain reporting controls, resolve reconciliation differences, prepare disclosures and accounting analyses, and coordinate with finance stakeholders.
Requirements
- Qualified Chartered Accountant with ACA or an international equivalent; ACCA and CIMA are not accepted
- Top 10 audit training
- 1–2 years of post-qualification experience in a large multi-currency business
- Group consolidation experience using Excel or a consolidation system
- Strong intercompany experience
- Working knowledge of financial reporting systems; SAP S/4Hana or Lucanet is advantageous
- Full UK working rights; sponsorship is not available
Responsibilities
- Support planning and execution of the group close process
- Communicate close instructions to the wider team
- Review local trial balances and reporting deliverables
- Manage the ledger lock process in SAP
- Own intercompany reconciliations and resolve differences
- Own IFRS 16 lease accounting at group level
- Prepare foreign-exchange analysis and OCI reclassification adjustments
- Maintain group consolidation in Lucanet
- Prepare data import files and post consolidation journals
- Perform data validation checks across financial statements
- Manage intercompany eliminations and reconciliation
- Support audit deliverables and respond to audit requests
- Prepare annual-report mapping files, note disclosures, and supporting schedules
- Review intercompany matrices, recharges, postings, and interest calculations
- Own group impairment models
- Maintain and apply group accounting policies
- Prepare technical accounting documentation and memos
- Support IFRS-to-US-GAAP reconciliation requirements
- Provide accounting guidance to the finance team
- Perform and document close controls
- Review balance-sheet reconciliations and variance analyses
- Perform user-access reviews across financial reporting systems
- Govern the group chart of accounts
Benefits
- Flexible home working
- Hardware provided based on your needs
- Regular wellbeing initiatives