Senior Management Accountant - Record to Report (R2R)

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and manage a team of management and assistant accountants.
• Take ownership of R2R delivery across month-end, quarter-end and year-end.
• Review journals, balance-sheet reconciliations and accounting schedules.
• Investigate the volume and timing of journals affecting the close timetable.
• Improve the efficiency and control of the month-end close.
• Maintain general-ledger integrity across a complex, multi-entity organisation.
• Oversee intercompany accounting and reconciliations.
• Deliver accurate management accounts, variance analysis and commentary.
• Manage team performance, workloads, development and engagement.
• Reduce key-person dependency through improved documentation and accountability.
• Identify opportunities for automation, standardisation and process improvement.
• Support finance transformation and system-development initiatives.
• Provide recommendations to the Head of R2R and senior stakeholders.

Essential experience

• ACA, ACCA or CIMA
• Previous experience within an R2R function or finance Shared Service Centre is essential.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end Record to Report processes.
• Proven experience managing a multi-level finance team.
• Experience within a complex, multi-entity organisation.
• Strong technical accounting, Excel and ERP-system knowledge.
• Able to investigate processes, challenge existing practices and implement improvements.
• Hands-on, operational and comfortable working through periods of change.

Desirable experience

• Practice-trained background.
• Professional services or legal-sector experience.
• Finance transformation or continuous-improvement experience.
• Experience within a large organisation with turnover exceeding £250 million.