Finance Manager - Qualified Accountant

Liberty Global; Bradford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a Finance Manager at a dynamic, tech-led global company in Bradford. In this hybrid role, you will leverage your expertise as a Qualified Accountant to lead financial processes, enhance reporting accuracy, and drive process improvements. Collaborating with a diverse team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping financial strategies and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. This position offers the chance to develop your career within a high-growth environment, where your contributions will significantly impact the business. If you're ready to take the next step in your finance career, this is the perfect role for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Finance Manager or Qualified Accountant.
• Professional Accountancy qualification required.
• Strong Excel and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Perform month-end activities and prepare journal entries.
• Support decision-making and manage stakeholder relationships.
• Implement internal control framework and ensure compliance.

Skills

Finance Management

Stakeholder Management

Internal Control Framework

Process Improvement

Excel Skills

Communication Skills

Financial Systems (Oracle, Hyperion)

US GAAP

IFRS

Education

Professional Accountancy Qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

Oracle

Hyperion/HFM

Job description

We're looking for a Finance Manager (Qualified Accountant) to join us in Bradford.

This is hybrid working - 2 days in the office, 3 days remote.

As part of the continued growth and diversification of Accounts team at Liberty Shared Services (LSS), we are looking for additional Finance Managers to lead teams, workstreams, and projects across various group and external Opco brands.

As a Finance Manager, you will be a Qualified Accountant reporting to a Senior Finance Manager, supporting and working closely with our teams in Bradford and across the wider business, to deliver accurate reporting and analysis to internal and external stakeholders across the Liberty Global Footprint.

There has never been a better time to join Liberty Global. We're a dynamic, high-growth and tech-led group of businesses, where as a Finance Manager you would be ideally suited with proven post-qualification experience and a desire to develop your career with a global market leader.

What will you be doing?

1. Month-end activities: You will perform accounting processes across the organization, prepare journal entries, and provide analysis and insight into areas of focus, whilst making recommendations to improve and simplify processes.
2. Stakeholder management: You will support and influence decision-making across the organization while working within internal reporting deadlines.
3. Control: You will implement an effective internal control framework, prepare balance sheet reconciliations, highlight and resolve any issues, and ensure compliance with SOX and other regulatory requirements, as well as liaise with auditors to provide evidence and supporting narrative, as required.
4. Process Improvement and Automation: You will identify opportunities to improve and simplify processes, working collaboratively to standardize and automate processes.

We tend to look for people with:

1. Proven experience as a Finance Manager, Management Accountant, Qualified Accountant, or Audit Manager with Management Accounts experience.
2. Professional Accountancy qualification (ACA; ACCA; CIMA etc.) and either newly qualified or with a degree of post-qualified experience.
3. Coaching and development of less experienced finance and accounting colleagues.
4. Knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS.
5. Experience working within large complex corporate structures, managing key stakeholder relationships and delivering to deadlines.
6. Experience in research into emerging/complex accounting or reporting issues.
7. Strong Excel skills.
8. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
9. Financial systems skills (e.g. Oracle, Hyperion/HFM).