Overview job description

Responsible for managing, mentoring and coaching team members. You'll have the ability to balance day-to-day operational demands with longer-term team development, helping individuals grow while delivering outstanding results.

You'll be an effective communicator who can confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels. Acting as the bridge between your team and senior leadership, you'll be skilled at communicating priorities, challenges, achievements and opportunities, ensuring decision-makers have the insight they need.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Lead the preparation to filing process of your region’s statutory financial statements, ensuring high-quality statutory financial statements and audit back up are delivered on time.  Dependant on business requirements this may involve the preparation or review of financial statements.
• Prepare or review technical accounting memos to support accounting decisions.
• Liaise with external auditors to ensure deadlines are met and issues are brought to the attention of management when necessary. 
• Review, or prepare as required, balance sheet reconciliations and analytical reviews, providing constructive feedback on improvements to the back up or the approach.  Promptly follow up on unresolved review points and required actions.
• Manage the team workload, ensuring accurate and timely delivery.
• Maintain and develop your team’s relationship with regional finance teams, encouraging communication and collaboration to understand and resolve any challenges, and sharing of knowledge to ensure best practice.
• Lead a team providing direction and feedback, including guidance and mentoring as required to fully identify and develop their individual potential and performance.
• Lead in establishing and maintaining best practice, standardisation and ways of working for all entities.  Identify areas for improvement and propose potential solutions.
• Provide training, where required, on technical accounting activities.

Applicants to this role require

• Qualified Accountant, with experience across audits and accounts preparation, and specific demonstrable experience within Financial Reporting.
• IFRS and FRS 101 statutory accounts preparation, financial controls and the audit process.
• Demonstrates experience providing precise and insightful analysis along with thorough analytical reviews.
• Demonstrates credibility, professionalism and operates with the highest standards of integrity.
• Ability to understand and interpret financial reports, presenting verbally and in writing to financial and non-financial audiences.
• Detail orientated, methodical with a focus on quality and a right-first-time approach.
• Demonstrates initiative and ownership to deliver workload unsupervised while leading and supporting wider team activities.
• Effective planning and organising skills, able to identify and effectively prioritise workload and consistently meet multiple, often competing deadlines.
• A collaborative worker who builds effective relationships across all levels of a highly diverse global business.
• People management skills; able to manage, motivate and develop a team that adjusts to changing workload demands.
• Solutions focused, will identify and develop new methods and ways of working.
• Proficient IT literacy in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word, and SAP. 
• Exposure to working within a large, multi-national organisation would be beneficial.

What’s in it for me? (the applicant)

• Hybrid working.
• Career development opportunities.
• Collaborative and supportive working environment.

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