Financial Accounting Manager

Role Overview

• The Accounting Manager plays a key role within the Central Finance function, overseeing the month end close process and ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial reporting.
• This role is responsible for managing core financial controls, leading the preparation and submission of monthly results, and providing guidance to ensure compliance with accounting standards and internal governance frameworks.
• Lead and coordinate the end-to-end month-end close process across the business.
• Preparation and review of monthly journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ensure the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of financial submissions into group reporting systems.
• Analyse monthly performance results, identifying variances, trends, and potential risks or opportunities and utilise this to produce monthly management accounts and supporting schedules for senior leadership reviews.
• Maintain a strong financial control environment, ensuring adherence to internal control frameworks (e.g., SOX and audit requirements) and provide support for any Internal audits.
• Oversee and improve reconciliation processes, ensuring timely resolution of reconciling items.
• Design, implement, and monitor financial month-end submissions and reporting cycles, whilst looking for ways to improve the processes across the team.
• Take the Lead on external audits, providing required documentation and explanations to the auditors.
• Ensure compliance with relevant company policies and accounting standards (e.g. US GAAP and UK GAAP).

Requirements

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven experience managing a month-end close process within a central or corporate finance environment ideally within a US group.
• Strong accounting knowledge and understanding of financial controls.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience of working within an SAP environment
• This role requires SC clearance and therefore the successful applicant must be eligible to receive SC clearance.
• Desirable Experience working in a large, multi-entity or multi-currency organisation.
• Exposure to audit processes or an internal control framework i.e. Internal and External audit.
• Previous involvement in an ERP transformation project including supporting with process mapping, system design, and post-go-live support.

Tech Stack

• ERP

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Car/Car allowance
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
• Private Medical Insurance – dependant on grade
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year
• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.