Financial Accounting Manager

What the role covers

• A new senior technical role: “Manager” reflects seniority, and there are no direct reports at the start
• Preparing financial statements, and supporting IFRS statutory accounts and consolidation under group accounting policies, along with reporting for the wider group
• Analysing contracts and complex transactions, and recommending an accounting treatment backed by evidence
• Reviewing the work of shared service centres and international colleagues, investigating differences and validating reconciliations
• Supporting the monthly, quarterly and annual close, keeping control evidence up to date and working with internal and external auditors
• Improving processes, controls and reporting as the team’s way of working changes

What the brief asks for

• A degree in economics, accounting, finance or a related subject, and about five years of relevant experience
• Strong general accounting and hands-on IFRS experience in a large, structured business
• Financial reporting experience, analytical judgement and attention to detail
• Confident working English
• Advanced Excel and experience with an accounting or ERP system

What helps

• Audit followed by financial accounting in a large company, although a strong audit-only background can also work
• Shared service centres and formal internal control frameworks
• Reporting under more than one accounting framework, and SAP
• Examples of improving a process, including with automation or AI