Financial Accounting Lead

PA Consulting; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading consultancy as a Financial Accountant Team Leader within the Finance Shared Service Team. You'll oversee a dynamic team, ensuring excellence in financial reporting and compliance in a collaborative environment. We're seeking a qualified accountant with robust leadership skills and a proactive approach to driving change.

Benefits

Private Healthcare

25 Days Annual Leave

Generous Pension Scheme

Annual Performance-Based Bonus

PA Share Ownership

Tax Efficient Benefits (Cycle to Work, Give as You Earn)

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA, CIMA, or ACCA.
• Experience in team management and financial accounting.
• Background in a multinational or professional services environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Financial Accounting Team and deliver timely financial reports.
• Maintain compliance with statutory requirements and internal governance.
• Design and implement process improvements for operational efficiency.

Skills

Team Management

Financial Reporting

Analytical Skills

Decision-Making

Communication

Education

ACA / CIMA / ACCA Qualified

Job description

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

In this role you will lead the nine strong Financial Accounting Team within our Finance Shared Service Team. Your experience of management will enable you to motivate and develop the team - setting challenging annual objectives, supervising and reviewing performance, giving direction and coaching. You will lead by example in developing strong, collaborative relationships beyond Finance Shared Services and providing service excellence to both internal and external customers.

As a strong leader, you will be responsible for delivering timely and accurate monthly financial accounting for the Group's trading entities in line with the overall group reporting timetable. Your experience as a financial accountant will enable you to review and monitor the work of your team, ensuring that it adheres to applicable reporting standards and PA Group policies. With deep financial accounting knowledge and experience in a multicurrency environment you will be the go-to person for technical and practical questions from your team. You will proactively investigate unusual transactions in conjunction with the Group Finance Team.

Your understanding of financial control will enable you to maintain a robust control environment in line with internal governance and external regulatory requirements. Keen to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of processes and with experience of identifying and delivering change, you will design, document and implement process improvements wherever possible.

By collaborating with local accounting service providers and audit teams, you will ensure compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements, including the identification and implementation of new regulations. You will track the progress of accounts preparation, audit and filing across the PA Group. Your excellent attention to detail will enable you to thoroughly review local financial statements, providing valuable feedback to your team.

As part of the wider Group and Financial Accounting Team you will own various processes for the Group month and quarter end reporting requirements, delivering these on time and accurately.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant - ACA / CIMA / ACCA
• Previous team management experience
• Experience as a financial accountant in a multinational organisation or in a professional services environment with a proven track record of achievement and success
• A proactive, highly organised self-starter able to hold others to account
• Ability to prioritise and manage accurate delivery to required deadlines
• Happy to be in the detail but also able to step back and see the bigger picture
• History of identifying and delivering change/improvement.
• Strong decision-making skills to answer technical and practical questions in a timely manner as well as provide solutions to issues arising
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Flexible, collaborative and open approach

We know the skill-gap and 'somewhat need to tick every box' can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply - we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We're committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [e-mail]

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