Financial Accounting Manager

The Search Core Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Institute seeks a Financial Accounting Manager to ensure timely and accurate delivery of financial statements, with a focus on compliance and efficient, diligent financial practices.

You will build strong relationships with internal teams and external auditors, delivering financial confidence and insights to support Leadership decisions. Reporting to Head of Finance, you will manage year-end, payroll, tax compliance and team development.

Qualifications

• Part-qualified accountant studying towards ACCA/ACA/CIMA or experienced accountant.
• Experience in the preparation of statutory accounts and delivering to annual audit.
• Experience leading and motivating a team to meet deadlines and targets.

Responsibilities

• Manage production of year-end statutory accounts and audits.
• Balance sheet reconciliation and month-end deadline discipline.
• Ensure VAT, Corporation Tax and other regulatory compliance.
• Oversee payables function and procure-to-pay improvements.
• Lead standardisation and documentation of procure-to-pay processes.
• Manage UK payroll for subsidiaries and ensure accurate service.
• Coach and develop financial accounting team to meet KPIs.

Skills

Leadership experience

Statutory year end

Communication skills

ACCA/ACA/CIMA candidate

Education

Part-qualified ACCA/ACA/CIMA or equivalent

Job description

• Are you a part-qualified accountant, studying towards professional qualification? Or an experienced technical accountant with strong leadership experience?
• Do you have experience in the production of statutory year end accounts?
• Have you led, developed and managed a team to deliver results within key deadlines and timescales?

This Professional, Membership and Educational body are looking to recruit a Financial Accounting Manager who will focus on ensuring the timely and accurate delivery of financial statements, ensuring compliance and implementation of efficient and diligent financial practices.

In this key role, it is essential that you build strong relationships with key stakeholders, working closely with our internal teams and Internal and External auditors and deliver financial confidence and insight that will allow the Leadership Team to make the best financial decisions for the Institute.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, your daily duties will include:

• Manage the production of year-end statutory accounts and internal and external audits, in accordance with Charities Act, SORP and Companies Act requirements.
• Mange the balance sheet reconciliation process, ensuring month end deadlines are met and unreconciled differences are resolved ensuring timely resolution and accurate accounting.
• Ensure the Institute and its trading subsidiaries complies with all statutory tax regulations, specifically VAT, Corporation Tax and other regulatory requirements.
• Manage the payables function to provide a high-quality service and ensure that the teams processes.
• Lead on standardising, documenting and continuously improving the procure to pay process.
• Managing the organisation and its subsidiaries UK payroll to ensure that an effective, accurate professional service is provided to all employees.
• Ensuring the Institute is fully compliant with UK tax and payroll laws.
• Manage, motivate and coach the financial accounting team, ensure the key performance.

The successful candidate will be a part-qualified accountant studying towards their ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualification or an experience accountant with significant technical accounting knowledge. You must have experience in the preparation of statutory accounts, preparing and delivering to the annual audit, working closely with the external auditors. You must possess demonstrable experience of leading and motivating a team to deliver the required results within the required timetable.

For this role, you must have strong influencing skills whilst possessing first class written and verbal communication skills, with experience of working closely with key internal stakeholders.