Our Management Accountant's are responsible for the production of accurate and timely regional financial statements for management and local authorities. This involves ensuring these financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.

The team are also responsible for the preparation of analytical reviews, schedules, supporting documents, incisive commentary on the financial results

as well as maintaining effective controls and reconciliations.

This position is a key business partner to our European branches and market's. They will work with relevant team members to troubleshoot and seek resolution's to finance and accounting issues both routine and non-routine. They will drive change through various strategic finance projects of varying size and complexity aligned with the Finance Team’s objectives.

1. Management Accounts

• Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual management accounts, analytical reviews and associated reporting.
• Ensures complete and accurate recording of all assets and liabilities and timely completion of the financial statements.
• Maintains and reconciles general ledger accounts monthly, dealing with multiple currencies including revaluation of multiple ledgers.
• Maintains various balance sheet account reconciliations. Analyses and interprets data to gain a detailed view of the balance sheet whilst ensuring that all reconciliations follow best-practice and can be easily reviewed by management and external auditors.
• Reviews and analyses Profit and Loss fluctuations.
• Calculates relevant journals (e.g. Accruals and Prepayments), with sufficient supporting evidence that is appropriate for a wide range of reviewers including Finance Managers and External Auditors.
• Responsible for the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Review of all journals posted, working in conjunction with fellow Management Accountants and other Technical Accountants to review and ensure the accurate posting of all journals, confirming that sufficient appropriate supporting evidence is in place for a wide range of reviewers, not limited to internal auditors, external auditors and finance managers.
• Takes a proactive role in troubleshooting obstacles with respect to accurate and timely reporting of financial statements.
• Performs account analysis and calculations in order to provide meaningful analysis of financial statement captions and the key drivers behind monthly movements to the Financial Controller and Financial Director on a monthly basis. Actively participates in and contributes to monthly preparation and close calls to explain drivers behind key account movements and be responsible for action points discussed.
• Builds relationships with and regularly liaises with local teams across the region in a timely and constructive manner to ensure successful month end financial statements and completion of process.
• Provides necessary coaching and accounting guidance to wider finance team members and branch support services.
• Provides cover and support to other team members where necessary.

1.1 Fixed Assets

• Directly responsible for the annual physical inventory of fixed assets.
• Manages fixed asset acquisitions, disposals, depreciation, and maintenance of the subledger.
• Prepares detail to enable the production of fixed asset roll forward schedules on a quarterly basis.
• Conducts annual physical inventory of fixed assets and prepares required documentation which summarises results of physical inventory.

2. Compliance and Audit

• Assists the Accounting Compliance and Reporting Manager with quarterly SOX, internal and external audits information requests and contributing to the resolution of follow up queries to ensure compliance is maintained with a particular focus on the maintenance of control documentation and associated narratives.
• Assists the Accounting Compliance and Reporting Manager in developing, documenting, maintaining, and improving internal controls in the Finance team.

3. Alignment with the local branches

• Works closely with the local branch teams at all levels to obtain required information to facilitate timely completion of management accounts and other requirements
• Provides accounting and control guidance for key calculations including customer rebates, revenue deferral and areas of estimates and judgements.
• Ensures accountability within the local branches. Monitor quality of information received and work closely to improve templates and quality of information received going forward.
• Arranges regular meetings with the local branches including senior management to ensure all queries are discussed and accounting policies are embedded correctly.

4. Payroll & Tax

• Works closely with the HR department/Support Service Manager to process the payroll payments, post associated journals and perform relevant analysis as required.
• Ensures payroll control best practice in respective region.
• Responsibility for the timely preparation and submission of schedules for VAT, intrastat, EC Sales on a monthly basis with supporting reconciliations.
• Provides all the required information to local accountants to enable them to submit corporation tax returns in the respective region.
• Reviews corporation tax computations prior to submission, plus assisting with local statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Work closely with local advisors, not limited to local accountants, tax advisors and payroll providers, to support inspections from the local tax authorities, providing the necessary information and explanations as required.
• Keep up to date with legislative and local tax regulation, rules and changes working closely with advisors and senior service managers.

Process Improvement & Finance Projects

• Contributes towards maintaining and implementing changes made to existing Global Accounting policies or other ad-hoc projects.
• Help design and implement changes to best practice and monitor the success of implementation going forward.
• Assist with projects including ERP system upgrades and providing training courses to team members on various items.
• Assists in the development of new IT initiatives to ensure best practice is adhered to and constantly reviewed for potential improvement, working closely with the Finance Innovation Team to deliver process improvements.
• Champion and manage ad-hoc finance projects from start to continuously improve finance processes, working closely with the Finance Innovation team and other relevant finance team members.

• Professional Accounting Qualification- Newely or part qualified ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Management accounting experience/ERP involvement, working in a commercially focused finance environment.
• Proven ability to learn, willingly accept projects/challenges and demonstrate flexibility and leadership within a dynamic environment.
• Structured, organized, detail orientated and excellent communication skills for liaising with regional staff where English is not necessarily a first language.