Group Accounting Manager

Bellrock; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading management firm in the East Midlands is seeking an experienced Group Accounting Manager to lead their Management Accounting team. This role involves overseeing the balance sheet, ensuring compliance with accounting policies, and mentoring team members. The ideal candidate should be a qualified accountant with excellent leadership and communication skills, ready to embrace hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Salary exchange pension scheme

Healthcare Cashplan

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant ACA, CIMA or ACCA, or have significant finance experience.
• Enthusiastic, driven and self-motivated with excellent communication skills.
• Good time management skills with the ability to prioritize the team's workload.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Group Management Accounting team and oversee the balance sheet.
• Ensure compliance with accounting policy and standards, including IFRS.
• Review month end journals for group consolidation.

Skills

Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)

Leadership and team motivation

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Job description

Group Accounting Manager

Leicester (hybrid working)

Lead the Group Management Accounting team and take responsibility for the balance sheet of Bellrock Group and its subsidiaries. You will ensure the financial control framework and systems are followed in line with company policies and challenge the business partners to maintain compliance. You will own the month end actuals close process, ensure all tasks are completed and drive process improvements to improve efficiency and accuracy.

Key responsibilities

• Reviewing reconciliations of Bellrock Balance Sheet accounts completed by the team and Business Partner teams. Complete the reconciliations on more complex accounting areas, including investments.
• Take ownership over resolving reconciling items and highlight to the Head of group accounting and reporting, all risks and opportunities highlighted in the reconciliations.
• Ensure compliance with accounting policy and standards. Including in complex areas such as IFRS 15 revenue recognition and IFRS 16 leases.
• Ensuring no financial surprises due to unsupported balances on the balance sheet.
• Review month end journals for group consolidation entries and the SPCs.
• Support in the preparation of statutory financial statements (SPC and other non-audited companies) and other external reporting (e.g. ONS).
• SPC monthly management accounts and monthly review meeting with SPC director
• Support on the processing of payments in banking systems.
• Oversee the CIS tax process, including resolving supplier queries.
• Ad-hoc queries as required by the Head of group accounting and reporting
• Highlight and deliver process improvements to improve the team’s efficiency and impact.
• Supporting the development of the management accountants in the team, including through their accounting qualifications and in work development.

Skills & experience

• The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant ACA, CIMA or ACCA, or have significant finance experience.
• Comfortable leading and motivating a small finance team, being hands on and balancing workload across the team.
• Enthusiastic, driven and self-motivated. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
• Resilient and cash focussed. Confident and comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders.
• Reliability - responsible and dependable. Take ownership of your work and the work of your team.
• Good time management skills with the ability to prioritise the team's workload.
• Team player - works as part of a team to achieve a common goal.
• Attention to detail - job requires being accurate in interpreting and challenging data

Working arrangements

We embrace smarter working practices which offer our employees the opportunity to work their hours flexibly and remotely where their roles and business needs allow. In this role, the successful candidate would be required to work from the Leicester office two days per week whilst the rest can be worked from home.

What can we offer you?

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 1 additional day as a thank you (enjoy it, it's on us)
• Salary exchange pension scheme
• Life cover
• Paid sick leave
• Health Assured employee assistance and wellness program
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Salary sacrifice schemes: Cycle to work
• Holiday purchase scheme of additional 5 days per year
• Offers and discount scheme designed to save money on everyday shopping and essentials
• Healthcare Cashplan
• MotorSave Scheme
• Refer a friend
• Liftshare
• Virtual GP

Why Bellrock?

Our people are our passion, so we're all about helping them to achieve their ambitions. That means putting everything in place for you to have a rewarding career with us. So you can go far in your career, with us behind you. And our business will grow, too. So, if you're ready to start your career journey with Bellrock we're ready to welcome you. It's a great place to be.

We would like to attract talent from all corners of the world for this role. Or commitment is to an equitable recruitment process so feel free to apply in any way that suits you. We are looking for the right person, not necessarily just the right person for this role.

Apply today.