Senior Financial Accountant

Christie's, the world's largest Art Business, is an incredibly exciting & enriching place to start or continue your career. Whether you work within one of our Specialist Art Departments or in our more Operational focused teams we are all working together with one common goal in mind: to continue the success of this 250 year old company, steeped in history, bringing constant innovation whilst not forgetting our age old values;
Passionate Expertise, Exceptional Client Service, Teamwork, Integrity, Respect, Business Judgment, & Innovation. Colleagues across all departments are truly passionate about what they do and it is constantly inspiring to work with industry leaders across all segments of the business.

You will support the Christie Manson & Woods Ltd FCRC team in delivering day-to-day accounting operations and month-end close activities for the London entity, while taking full ownership of the accounting and reporting for a portfolio of other smaller entities. This will include ensuring timely and accurate monthly results, maintaining balance sheet integrity, supporting statutory reporting, and acting as a key point of contact for assigned entities.

The role requires a technically strong, proactive and detail-oriented accountant who can work independently, identify and resolve issues, challenge unusual movements, and communicate effectively with stakeholders across Finance, regional offices, auditors and outsourced service providers. The successful candidate will also contribute to improving accounting processes, controls and reporting quality across the portfolio.

• Supporting the month‑end close process for the London entity, including posting journals, resolving business queries, preparing reconciliations and ensuring deadlines are met.
• Manage a portfolio of other assigned entities, taking ownership of day‑to‑day accounting, month‑end close, reporting submissions and balance sheet integrity.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring reconciling items are understood, supported and cleared in a timely manner.
• Review and upload Regional Office submissions from local accountants into JDE, challenging unusual movements, incomplete supporting information or inconsistent treatment where required.
• Act as the main finance point of contact for assigned entities, liaising with regional offices, Finance Business Partners, Tax, Treasury, auditors and outsourced accountants.
• Prepare statutory accounts to review stage, or review those prepared by outsourced accountants, for assigned entities.
• Manage year‑end audit queries for the assigned portfolio, ensuring supporting documentation is complete, accurate and provided on a timely basis.
• Prepare and reconcile intercompany current and loan accounts, ensuring balances are agreed between sites, invoices are raised, and relevant costs, recharges and revaluations are accurately recorded.
• Work with the VAT team on matters relating to the Group VAT return and ensure VAT‑related queries are resolved appropriately.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS, UK GAAP and internal accounting policies across all assigned entities.
• Identify and elevate unusual balances, accounting issues or process/control concerns on a timely basis.
• Contribute to improvements in accounting processes, reconciliations, documentation standards and internal controls.
• Provide guidance and support to junior team members, including assisting with training, reviewing work where appropriate, and promoting best practice across the team.
• Participate in ad‑hoc projects and support wider Finance initiatives as required.

• Fully qualified accountant (CIMA, ACCA or ACA) with strong post‑qualification experience of 2‑3 years in financial accounting or accounting operations.
• Proven experience owning month‑end close and balance sheet control for multiple entities.
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP, with experience preparing or reviewing statutory financial statements.
• Confident reviewing accounting outputs, challenging anomalies and resolving issues independently.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience working across…