# Financial Accounting Manager

> A media and telecommunications group is adding a Financial Accounting Manager to its finance team, to strengthen technical accounting and IFRS reporting while its processes change.

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- Published: 2026-10-18
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Industry: Media & Telecommunications
- Status: live

### 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