Financial Accounting Manager

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead develop and motivate a team of Financial Accountants fostering a culture of accountability collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Manage workload prioritisation resource planning and performance management across the team.
• Establish and deliver individual development plans coaching team members on both technical accounting and professional development.
• Ensure appropriate succession planning and capability development within the department.
• Promote best-practice financial control governance and compliance standards across the business.

Technical Accounting & Financial Reporting

• Own the month-end and year-end financial close processes ensuring accurate and timely reporting to local management and the wider Group Finance team.
• Review and approve accounting entries accruals provisions and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Provide technical accounting expertise and guidance on IFRS UK GAAP (FRS
  102) and Group accounting policies.
• Lead the assessment implementation and communication of new accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
• Review and challenge balance sheet forecasts and planning assumptions as part of annual business planning cycles.
• Partner with the Tax Manager to ensure accounting structures and reporting processes support tax compliance requirements.

Financial Control & Governance

• Maintain and continuously enhance the financial control framework ensuring appropriate controls operate effectively across all business processes.
• Identify assess and mitigate financial reporting and compliance risks.
• Drive process improvements standardisation and automation initiatives whilst ensuring accounting policies procedures and documentation remain current and aligned with Group requirements.
• Lead control assessments and support remediation activities where weaknesses are identified.
• Champion the application of technology automation and data analytics within Finance leveraging tools to enhance reporting quality strengthen controls and reduce manual effort.

Business Partnering

• Act as a trusted advisor to Finance Operations Sales and Marketing teams on financial reporting and accounting matters.
• Support business initiatives by providing accounting guidance and evaluating reporting impacts of commercial decisions.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to strengthen financial awareness and control ownership throughout the organisation.
• Partner with wider Group Finance to ensure alignment with global reporting requirements.
• Lead or support strategic projects organisational changes and finance transformation initiatives ensuring appropriate accounting reporting and control considerations are addressed.

Audit Statutory Reporting & Compliance

• Lead all aspects of the external audit process acting as the primary contact for auditors and coordinating delivery across the business.
• Oversee the preparation review and submission of statutory financial statements under FRS
  102 for local reporting and IFRS for group reporting.
• Ensure compliance with Companies House HMRC and other regulatory reporting obligations.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with external auditors regulatory bodies and Group Finance stakeholders.

Qualifications :

• Fully qualified ACA or ACCA accountant.
• Typically proven post-qualification experience in external audit financial reporting or financial accounting roles.
• Previous experience managing coaching and developing finance professionals.
• Strong experience managing external audits and statutory reporting requirements.
• Experience implementing process improvements controls enhancements or finance transformation initiatives would be advantageous.
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP (FRS
  102).
• Advanced user of Microsoft Excel Word Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Experience with SAP preferred but not essential.
• Experience using Caseware or other statutory accounts and audit-support software.
• Experience leveraging automation data analytics and reporting tools (e.g. Power Query Power BI Python similar) to improve efficiency controls and insight preferred but not essential.
• Demonstrates a continuous improvement mindset actively identifying opportunities to streamline and automate finance processes.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and business partnering capability.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interpret technical accounting guidance and communicate complex concepts clearly.
• Excellent planning organisation and prioritisation skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to effectively manage competing priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Additional Information :

Financial Reporting & Compliance

• Deliver accurate month-end quarter-end and year-end reporting within agreed deadlines.
• Ensure all statutory reporting obligations are completed accurately and on time.
• Maintain full compliance with IFRS UK GAAP and Group accounting policies.

Audit & Control

• Deliver clean external audit opinions with minimal audit…