European Leveraged Finance Association

Management Accountant

European Leveraged Finance Association

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

JuniorMid-Level

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