Lead Accounting & Financial Reporting

CAE; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Lead in Accounting & Financial Reporting, where you will spearhead a dynamic finance team in a hybrid work environment. This role offers the opportunity to lead financial operations, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements while fostering strong relationships across business units. With a commitment to excellence, you will guide your team through the complexities of financial reporting and contribute to strategic growth initiatives. If you thrive in a fast-paced, global environment and are ready to make a significant impact, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Flexible Holiday Policy

Private Health Insurance

Healthcare Cash Plan

Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Fully qualified in ACCA, ACA, or CIMA with team management experience.
• Strong leadership and organizational skills with financial accounting knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Financial Analysts ensuring timely closing of books.
• Oversee corporate reporting and ensure compliance with statutory requirements.

Skills

Team Management

Financial Accounting

IFRS Reporting

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Adaptability

Education

ACCA

ACA

CIMA

Tools

ERP Software

Hyperion Planning

HFM

Databases

Spreadsheets

Job description

About This Role

Join CAE’s Civil Aviation Training team as a Lead - Accounting & Financial Reporting and lead our global finance and reporting team as part of our civil aviation division in Crawley at our London-Gatwick Commercial Training Centre.

The role we are offering you

In this role you will be leading a team of 5-6 Financial Analysts and be a part of our Finance leadership team.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring timely closing of the books including all corporate reporting requirements

• Responsible for ensuring all statutory requirements and deadlines are met for each of the jurisdictions (taxation, financial statements, VAT tax reporting, etc.)
• Ensure strong control environment and coordinate across functions to ensure processes evolve as needed
• Ensure strong balance sheet reviews are performed
• Act as a liaison between accounting, financial planning & analysis, business development, mergers & acquisitions, treasury, tax, internal and external audit, shared services (AR & AP) and consolidation.
• Work with civil aviation reporting leader to push standardization initiatives and evolution of controls environment
• Establish strong working relationships with the business units outside of finance to support growth and strategy execution.

MAIN TASKS:

• Complete the overall Month End process following the Matrix and Responsibilities to ensure deadlines are met. This will include recurring journals and other journals as required by the business performance team
• Oversee the monthly inter-company confirmation process (incl unbilled balances) to ensure IC are reconciled
• Oversee the completion of the different corporate reporting deliverables
• Ensure timely completion and streamline all revenue reconciliations for the region
• Ensure completion of the balance sheet reconciliations for each individual entity in the region identifying in a monthly basis R&Os and running the governance on specific items such as leases and loans, prepaids, PO’S, etc…
• Overall administration of the bank accounts and completion of cash flow forecasts for short term and longer-term funding requirements, including analysis of the actuals
• Fixed assets governance and IFRS 16 (processing monthly and any amendments/new leases)
• Overall administration of the expense claim process and ensure that staff expense claims are compliant with corporate policies and procedures
• Ensure timely completion of VAT returns, WHT, payroll taxes and any other local TAX requirements and associated reconciliations
• Participate in the preparation of corporation tax computations for all legal entities within the region
• Lead and/or participate in the internal and external audit process for all legal entities within the region

Our ideal candidate

• Is fully qualified (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Has previous team management experience (desirable either direct/indirectly/projects)
• Good leadership & personnel management skills.
• Good organisational capabilities
• Full understanding of financial accounting to trial balance
• Experience of IFRS reporting
• Able to work successfully with multiple foreign currencies
• Flexibility to adapt role and tasks to changes in the business
• Investigation of nominal account ledgers and support in the resolution of queries
• Able to work in a fast-moving environment, providing accurate and timely information to a high standard
• Computer skills – capable of learning: financial software applications (ERP), Hyperion Planning, HFM, databases, spreadsheets, PowerPoints and word processing
• Fluent in English, both verbal and written (additional foreign languages would be an advantage, Spanish, Dutch)

What kind of person will succeed in this team?

You are a hands-on leader and collaborator with experience in working in a fast-paced and global environment.

Contract details & location

The position is based at our modern Commercial Aviation Training Centre in Crawley/Gatwick and offer hybrid working, 2 days on-site and 3 days from home. We are offering a permanent contract, working hours of the role are Monday to Friday with total working hours of 39 hours a week.

CAE offers

• Attractive benefits including a flexible holiday policy.
• Private health insurance (BUPA)
• Healthcare cash plan
• Pension scheme
• Life Assurance & more!

With over 13,000 employees located in 35 countries, CAE is a global leader in training for the civilaviation, defence and security, and healthcare markets. To learn more: Visit www.cae.com !

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Position Type

Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Opportunity Employer

CAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender indentity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, veteran status, age, or other characteristics protected by local laws.

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