General Ledger Manager

Solutions Driven; Leicester Forest East; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Solutions Driven is seeking a General Ledger Manager to oversee the group’s general ledger, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of financial records across Spanish and Italian entities. You will lead journal entries, reconciliations, and month-end close, ensuring IFRS compliance and robust internal controls.

You will partner with AP, AR and Payroll to streamline processes, drive improvements, and support statutory reporting and audits across Southern Europe.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a GL team across multiple entities.
• Knowledge of IFRS and local statutory reporting requirements.
• Experience with month-end and year-end close processes.
• Ability to coordinate with AP/AR/Payroll teams for accurate data.
• Strong internal controls and audit readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead GL team across Spanish and Italian entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Oversee journal entries, accruals, and prepayments in line with IFRS and local plans.
• Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual closing cycles with reconciliations and controls.
• Prepare local statutory statements and group management reporting with variance analysis.
• Maintain audit trails and interact with external auditors and tax authorities.

Skills

Fluency in English

Spanish proficiency

Italian proficiency

ERP system experience

MS Office proficiency

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Purpose of Role: The General Ledger Manager is responsible for overseeing the organisation’s general ledger and ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial records. This role leads the team managing journal entries, reconciliations, and month-end and year-end close processes. The GL Manager provides critical support for financial reporting, audit compliance, and decision-making by maintaining an efficient and well-controlled accounting framework. This role also plays a key part in driving process improvements and aligning financial operations with business objectives

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and build a General Ledger team managing Spanish (S.A./S.L.) and Italian (S.r.l./S.p.A.) operating entities, ensuring strict adherence to group financial calendars and statutory reporting deadlines.
• General Ledger Oversight: Direct the accuracy and integrity of regional GL accounts, ensuring all journal entries, accruals, and prepayments comply with local statutory plans of accounts (Plan General de Contabilidad in Spain, Codice Civile / OIC in Italy) as well as IFRS
• Reconciliation & Close Processes: Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual closing cycles, reviewing key control account reconciliations, localized tax accounts, bank feeds, and statutory reserves.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare and review local statutory financial statements (Cuentas Anuales in Spain, Bilancio d'Esercizio in Italy) and group management reporting, delivering variance analyses to senior leadership.
• Compliance & Audit: Serve as the main point of contact for external auditors and local tax authorities (AEAT in Spain, Agenzia delle Entrate in Italy), maintaining rigorous audit trails and internal controls.
• Process Optimisation: Streamline local record-to-report workflows within the ERP system, automating manual reconciliations and standardizing multi-entity GL processes across Southern Europe.
• Intercompany & Consolidations: Manage cross-border intercompany allocations, transfer pricing adjustments, and elimination entries for Spanish and Italian entities in line with group consolidation procedures.
• Budgeting & Forecasting Support: Provide validated regional financial actuals to FP&A and business controllers to support annual budget models and rolling cash forecasts.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with local AP, AR, and Payroll teams to ensure smooth transaction flows, aligned sub-ledgers, and consistent financial data integrity across regional operations.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and build a General Ledger team managing Spanish (S.A./S.L.) and Italian (S.r.l./S.p.A.) operating entities, ensuring strict adherence to group financial calendars and statutory reporting deadlines.
• General Ledger Oversight: Direct the accuracy and integrity of regional GL accounts, ensuring all journal entries, accruals, and prepayments comply with local statutory plans of accounts (Plan General de Contabilidad in Spain, Codice Civile / OIC in Italy) as well as IFRS
• Reconciliation & Close Processes: Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual closing cycles, reviewing key control account reconciliations, localized tax accounts, bank feeds, and statutory reserves.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare and review local statutory financial statements (Cuentas Anuales in Spain, Bilancio d'Esercizio in Italy) and group management reporting, delivering variance analyses to senior leadership.
• Compliance & Audit: Serve as the main point of contact for external auditors and local tax authorities (AEAT in Spain, Agenzia delle Entrate in Italy), maintaining rigorous audit trails and internal controls.
• Process Optimisation: Streamline local record-to-report workflows within the ERP system, automating manual reconciliations and standardizing multi-entity GL processes across Southern Europe.
• Intercompany & Consolidations: Manage cross-border intercompany allocations, transfer pricing adjustments, and elimination entries for Spanish and Italian entities in line with group consolidation procedures.
• Budgeting & Forecasting Support: Provide validated regional financial actuals to FP&A and business controllers to support annual budget models and rolling cash forecasts.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with local AP, AR, and Payroll teams to ensure smooth transaction flows, aligned sub-ledgers, and consistent financial data integrity across regional operations.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Monitor updates to local accounting frameworks, statutory filing standards, and EU financial directives to ensure timely adjustment of local reporting processes.

Requirements:

• Familiarity with integrated systems (AP, AR, GL and Payroll)
• Knowledge of office productivity tools (MS Office)
• Exposure to automation tools (RPA bots etc.) beneficial

Core Skills

• Fluency in written and spoken English, alongside full professional proficiency in either Spanish or Italian, is required
• Clear communication skills – ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders
• Customer service orientation – ensuring positive interactions. Service first mentality
• Team Collaboration – working cohesively within cross-functional teams
• Issue Resolution – Proficient in identifying discrepancies, investigating root causes and resoling errors
• Process improvement mindset – Suggesting and implementing changes to improve efficiency, accuracy and service relating to processes
• Accuracy under pressure – maintaining attention to detail while managing high volumes
• Time Management – prioritisation of tasks to ensure deadlines are met
• Documentation skills – ability to accurately keep records for audit and compliance purposes