Accounting Operations Finance Manager-6

Virgin Media Business Ireland; Bradford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave + buy 5 days

Wellbeing and health benefits

Matched pension contribution up to 10%

Life assurance & income protection

Employee discounts & cashback offers

Electric car scheme

24 hours volunteering leave

Job summary

Liberty Global seeks a Finance Manager in Bradford to lead management accounting across the Liberty Global footprint. The role requires a qualified accountant and a proven ability to deliver timely reporting in a dynamic, multi-site environment.

You will own month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, internal controls, and process improvements, collaborating with senior stakeholders and auditors to drive accuracy and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA and strong attention to detail.
• Experience in large corporate structures and SOx/compliance requirements.
• Ability to drive process improvement and automation across finance processes.

Responsibilities

• Month-end activities: perform accounting processes, prepare journal entries, analysis and insights, meet reporting deadlines, and liaise with senior stakeholders.
• Control: implement internal control framework, reconcile balances, ensure SOx/compliance, liaise with auditors.
• Process Improvement and Automation: identify opportunities to standardise and automate processes with automation teams.
• Collaborate across internal and external teams in multiple locations to deliver improvements and best practices.
• Demonstrate communication, coaching, and resilience in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

SOx compliance

US GAAP

IFRS

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

Oracle

Hyperion/HFM

Job description

We’re looking for a Finance Manager to join us in Bradford. Working in a constantly changing, dynamic, fast paced and diverse environment, the Financial Manager is responsible for Management Accounting across companies within the Liberty Global footprint including Virgin Media. The role will suit a qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with excellent communication skills and strong attention to detail. The successful candidate must be deadline focused with an aptitude for process improvement and simplification.

What will you be doing?

Key responsibilities include:

• Month-end activities: Perform accounting processes across the organisation, prepare journal entries, prepare analysis and provide insight into areas of focus, work within internal reporting deadlines, make recommendations to improve and simplify processes, liaise with senior stakeholders and influence decision making across the organisation.
• Control: Implement an effective internal control framework, prepare balance sheet reconciliations highlighting and resolving any issues, ensure compliance with SOx and other regulatory requirements, liaise with auditors and provide evidence and supporting narrative as required.
• Process Improvement and Automation: Ensure work is performed efficiently, identify opportunities to improve and simplify processes, work collaboratively to standardise processes, work with automation teams to automate processes.
• We Tend To Look For People With Professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA etc.), knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS, experience of working within large corporate structures, strong excel and financial systems skills (e.g. Oracle, Hyperion/HFM), excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to coach and develop others, experience of working in a complex environment, delivering to deadlines, experience of research into emerging/complex accounting or reporting issues, qualified accountant with Management Accounting and/or audit experience.
• Assurance mindset – the ability to review accurately, identify risks in processes and reconciliations, articulate/resolve/mitigate these as part of the monthly accounting cycle.
• Communicator – to provide clear and meaningful interpretation of analysis conducted, to lead and control meetings with senior stakeholders.
• Customer Focused – to understand finance and operational stakeholder needs and requirements to provide excellent customer service, to understand the correct balance between challenge and support of these stakeholders to raise both the profile and external perception of the team.
• Collaboration – working across internal and external teams in multiple locations to deliver improvements and best practice within the team.
• Self‑motivated – well‑organised, adaptable and resilient, responds to challenging priorities with a sense of urgency and pace, ability to work under pressure.
• Solution driven – creative thinker, open to change and different ways of doing things, efficient and agile, challenges the way things are done, has a critical eye, learns from activities and is prepared to try new ways of doing things.
• Ability to adopt a consultative approach with our partners.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave + buy 5 days
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance, plus many more.
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%
• Life assurance & income protection
• Exclusive Virgin Media O2 products, employee discounts and cashback offers on thousands of brands
• Access to electric car scheme
• 24 hours paid volunteering leave

Who We Are

Liberty Blume, Liberty Global company, is a rapidly growing business services provider, specialising in tech-enabled back-office solutions. Our mission is to deliver efficiency, scale and value to our customers through Business, Procurement and Financial Solutions. If you’re curious, customer centric and enjoy being one step ahead, join us on our scale up journey and unlock your freedom to grow!

Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer, committed to an inclusive environment and accommodating all candidates. We’re eager to hear from you, no matter your background. Our growth is creating great opportunities! Our team is expanding, and we want to hire the most talented people we can. Continued success depends on it!

We’re on a mission to redefine global business services with our tech-enabled solutions, that deliver efficiency, scale and value for our customers. With over 20 years of experience, our team of passionate specialists have perfected an approach that deals with the demands of today and the markets of the future, so our customers stay one step ahead and unlock the freedom to grow.