Manage day-to-day bookkeeping across multiple entities, ensuring accurate and timely recording of all transactions in Xero, including multicurrency entries and intercompany reconciliations.
Prepare and file quarterly VAT returns and coordinate annual statutory filings with external accountants, ensuring compliance with UK tax and reporting requirements.
Coordinate with Supply Chain on purchase orders and vendor invoicing, maintaining an accurate payables ledger and scheduling payments in line with cash flow priorities.
Support financial planning and forecasting, including cash flow projections, budget variance analysis, and scenario modelling to inform leadership decisions.
Produce consolidated financial statements using Xero’s multi-entity tools or integration with consolidation platforms (e.g., Syft, Joiin), ensuring accurate elimination of intercompany balances.
Manage multicurrency accounting processes, including foreign exchange revaluations, currency gain/loss tracking, and alignment of bank feeds across GBP and USD accounts.
Oversee US sales tax compliance, including tracking nexus obligations by state, preparing and filing state-level sales tax returns, and maintaining accurate tax rate configurations.
Coordinate inventory cycle counts with third-party warehouses and 3PL locations, reconciling physical counts against book values and investigating variances.

7+ years of hands-on experience in accounting or finance roles, with direct responsibility for multi-entity and multi-jurisdiction bookkeeping — this is a doer role, not a delegation role.
Strong working knowledge of Xero, including bank rules, repeating invoices, fixed asset register, and reporting.
Experience with Joiin (or similar consolidation tools) for group-level reporting across multiple Xero organisations.
Familiarity with UK VAT schemes, Companies House filing deadlines, and working alongside external auditors or tax advisors.
Experience with US state-level sales tax reporting, including economic nexus thresholds and multi-state filing requirements.
Experience coordinating inventory reconciliations with 3PL providers and third-party warehouses.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, multi-entity environment spanning the UK and US.

Accounting Manager

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