Manage EMEA accounting operations, consolidation, statutory reporting, month-end close, audits, tax compliance, financial controls, and acquisition accounting. Oversee accounting policies, reconciliations, fixed assets, lease accounting, and reporting deadlines while managing and developing two accounting staff. Coordinate with auditors, shared service centers, overseas affiliates, and corporate stakeholders to improve processes and maintain accurate, compliant financial records.
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Job Overview
Responsible for providing financial and management services to ensure an efficient, accurate and timely financial and management accounting function. Delivering an excellent standard of client service, compliance with external regulatory and reporting obligations, internal management reporting processes and deadlines. Providing financial controls and accounting oversight and direction to overseas affiliates.
What You'll Do
- Fully qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA or equivalent CA qualification), ideally with a background in external audit.
- Management of EMEA accounting operations, oversees all transactions related to general ledger, receivables, payables and financial reporting.
- Ownership of EMEA consolidation reporting ensuring monthly deadlines achieved and full reconciliations provided.
- Ownership of the statutory reporting books and associated reconciliations.
- Follow structured monthly close and reconciliation review process in order to complete a month-end close within seven business days.
- Preparation of monthly management reporting adhering to month end deadlines.
- Oversee the correct processing of fixed assets and lease accounting (IFRS 16)
- Lead role in evaluating, developing, implementing and documenting new accounting policies and procedures to respond to changes in GAAP, tax and regulatory requirements.
- Manage relationships with shared service center and external auditors.
- Coordinates and manages the annual group, UK and EMEA audits ensuring deadlines are achieved and a high standard of working papers and supporting documentation provided.
- Ensure full compliance for tax, VAT and other relevant taxes in the EMEA region.
- Manages accounting integration of acquisitions and/or new business ventures and quickly establish robust financial controls and align to group accounting policies.
- Manages accounting of entity rationalising, impairment calculation and acquisition accounting.
- Maintain strong financial controls and escalate issues appropriately and in a timely manner.
- Management of two accounting staff to ensure deadlines are met, records are accurate and controls remain intact.
- Promotes a supportive team environment and provides work direction and guidance including coaching, professional development and training. Monitors and analyses team work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
- Identify potential process efficiencies & contribute towards a high standard, continuous improvement culture.
- Ad hoc tasks and projects as required.
What’s Required
- Fully qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA or equivalent CA qualification), ideally with a background in external audit.
- Minimum of 3 years' post-qualification experience, with a strong foundation in financial accounting and audit.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, with experience supporting or managing external audits and responding to auditor queries.
- Experience managing and developing an accounting team, including setting objectives, providing feedback and conducting performance reviews.
- Strong Excel skills, including VLOOKUPs, SUM functions and PivotTables.
- Highly adaptable and proactive, with the ability to work independently, solve complex problems and manage changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to work collaboratively across finance teams and wider corporate functions.
- A collaborative team player with a hands-on approach and the ability to take ownership of tasks and deliver to deadlines.
- Experience working with US GAAP would be advantageous.
THE·TEAM does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
THE·TEAM London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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