Management Accountant
European Leveraged Finance Association
full-time
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Location: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead month-end close process to deliver timely and accurate management accounts
- Turn financial data into clear, actionable insights that inform decision making across the business
- Assist with annual audit across UK and US entities, including statutory account preparation under UK GAAP (FRS 102) and US GAAP (in conjunction with external auditors)
- Help design and implement scalable financial processes, automation tools and controls to support growth
- Work closely with department heads to track performance against budget, understand variances and provide actionable insights
- Contribute to forecasting and scenario planning to shape where we invest and grow next
- Work on strategic initiatives like R&D tax claims and transfer pricing
- Shape the finance function as it grows by couching junior team members and building a scaling function
Requirements
- An accounting technical expert with a high attention to detail
- Hands-on, ready to roll up your sleeves and get involved in all day-to-day activities, whilst also being able to ensure exceptionally high quality of output amongst competing deadlines
- Able to clearly grasp the big picture and wider business context, whilst being deep in the detail of the day-to-day
- Excited about growing with the role and business as we scale a best in class finance team
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment
- Excited by technology, automation and system improvement, and willing to share well thought out and researched ideas for the continued evolution of our finance function
- An excellent communicator. Able to leverage communication skills to ensure efficiency and cohesion across a global finance team and collaborate cross-functionally across the wider business
- A team player and a great mentor to junior team members
- Qualifications / Experience:
- Qualified accountant (ideally ACA or ACCA) with a minimum of 2+ years PQE and strong technical experience
- Excellent knowledge of UK GAAP / FRS 102 (additional knowledge of US GAAP would be advantageous)
- Strong excel skills