Finance Manager

About the business:

A large services group with operations across the UK and Europe, supported by a central finance function responsible for financial control, governance and management reporting across the business.

The Opportunity:

This is a newly created 12-month fixed-term contract, bringing dedicated specialist support into the Central Finance team at a period of significant technical and process change.

You'll work closely with the Head of Accounting UK, picking up four distinct, high-priority workstreams that need focused delivery alongside the team's day-to-day responsibilities.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading a technical accounting conversion project, moving the UK entities from current UK GAAP to an updated reporting standard — covering the impact assessment, policy documentation, transition adjustments and liaison with external auditors
• Supporting a group-wide review of financial controls, building a clear controls inventory, acting as the main point of contact for the review, and working with process owners to implement the resulting improvements
• Leading a structured improvement of the balance sheet reconciliation process, standardising ownership, review tiers and escalation across entities, and upgrading the templates and guidance behind it
• Owning the accounting and capitalisation treatment for a group-wide systems project, aligning capitalisation criteria to the relevant accounting standards and building the monthly controls to validate capitalised costs

What we're looking for:

• You'll be ACA or ACCA qualified (or equivalent) with solid post-qualification experience.
• Strong technical knowledge of UK GAAP and FRS 102
• Direct experience documenting, assessing or improving financial controls frameworks.
• You'll have prepared or reviewed balance sheet reconciliations in a group or multi-entity environment, understand capitalisation criteria for internally developed software or labour, and be comfortable managing several concurrent workstreams to deadline.
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Have worked within a large, complex, multi-entity group,