Management Accountant

• Essential: previous management accountant experience (any industry)
• London (flexible hybrid WFH 3 days p/wk)

Pear Talent is representing a private equity backed Financial Services business who have an excellent opportunity for a Management Accountant in their London based Finance team. The Company are outstripping performance targets and with a new CEO who’s launched and a major business-wide strategic digitalisation programme, it’s an exciting time to join.

You’ll be part of a high-calibre team responsible for the financial management of their UK business providing critical finanical insight to inform key business decisions, including regular exposure to senior management and involvement in Finance projects.

Key accountabilities:

• Key member of the UK Finance team covering management accounting and financial accounting
• Ownership of the month-end process and responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of the balance sheet and supporting reconciliations.
• Support year-end accounting, financial statements and the external audit process
• Challenge the status-quo of processes and take a lead role in the continuous improvement of processes and internal controls
• Build strong relationships across the business in order to identify and understand key drivers of financial results
• Involvement in the implementation of a new general ledger system
• Support with other ad-hoc projects related to UK Finance

Required experience:

The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA or ACCA) with a good academic record and previous experience in a similar Management Accountant role in any industry (blue-chip or Financial Services advantage).

• Previous management accounting/financial accounting experience
• Experience of running the month end and year end process
• Good grasp of finanical statements under IFRS and UK GAAP
• Strong understanding of robust processes and effective controls
• Comfortable with large volumes and multiple sources of data
• Clear written and oral communication skills
• Engaging and capable of delivering clear objectives
• Confident, a self-starter, with the ability to operate in a dynamic environment
• Able to demonstrate good attention to detail and good judgment showing logical decision making

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