Senior Accountant

Sewell Wallis; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A private equity-backed firm in Manchester seeks a Senior Accountant to oversee financial activities and ensure smooth accounting functions. This role reports to the Head of Finance and engages with various business departments, offering an opportunity to impact financial reporting and management in a growing organization. Ideal candidates will possess strong technical accounting skills and a proactive approach to challenges.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in handling corporate acquisitions and development assets.
• Experience with presenting management accounts to senior leadership.
• Strong understanding of debt management and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Onboarding new assets and corporate acquisitions.
• Managing cash flow and reporting on development projects.
• Monitoring debt and ensuring compliance.

Skills

Technical accounting skills

Attention to detail

Project management

Education

ACCA or equivalent

Job description

Sewell Wallis have an exciting opportunity to work for our client a large, private equity backed business as they look to appoint a Senior Accountant. This business has an aggressive acquisitions growth strategy and is looking for an ambitious, technically strong Accountant which is a newly created role due to an increase in work.

Reporting to the Head of Finance / Finance Manager the role forms part of the central finance team and is based in the newly built and modern Manchester office. Along with a Finance Manager and Management Accountant, the role is also to ensure a consistently smooth set of accounting functions, acting as a link between the Corporate Accounting Team, FP&A, and other business departments.

What will you be doing?

• Onboarding of new development assets and corporate acquisitions.
• Development projects, reporting, cash flow and loan draw downs.
• Debt monitoring, management and compliance.
• Building of new consolidations and accounting for new legal entities as determined by the growth.
• Assisting to develop controls and the checking of data accuracy within the system.
• Presentation of monthly and quarterly management accounts to SLT and boards.
• Support the Financial Controller and Head of Financial Operations in ad-hoc projects. Opportunity to lead own ad-hoc projects.

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