- You'll have qualified as an accountant with one of the following accreditations: ACA / CIMA / ACCA
- Ideally you will have had experience managing a small team
- Experience as a financial accountant in a multinational organisation or in a professional services environment
- Delivery to deadlines is imperative in this role so you'll be someone with the ability to prioritise
- You'll be someone who is comfortable in the detail but also able to step back and see the bigger picture
- You have a mindset of seeking to continuously improve.
- You'll be a strong communicator with well honed influencing skills
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
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Financial Accountant Lead - Melbourn, United Kingdom - PA Consulting
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Company Description
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.
We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.
What is next in your career?
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In this role you will lead the nine strong Financial Accounting Team within our Finance Shared Service Team. Your experience of management will enable you to motivate and develop the team - setting challenging annual objectives, supervising and reviewing performance, giving direction and coaching. You will lead by example in developing strong, collaborative relationships beyond Finance Shared Services and providing service excellence to both internal and external customers.
As a strong leader, you will be responsible for delivering timely and accurate monthly financial accounting for the Group's trading entities in line with the overall group reporting timetable. Your experience as a financial accountant will enable you to review and monitor the work of your team, ensuring that it adheres to applicable reporting standards and PA Group policies. With deep financial accounting knowledge and experience in a multicurrency environment you will be the go-to person for technical and practical questions from your team. You will proactively investigate unusual transactions in conjunction with the Group Finance Team.
You'll have the opportunity to get involved with:
Utilising your understanding of financial control to enable you to maintain a robust control environment in line with internal governance and external regulatory requirements. You'll be keen to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of processes and with experience of identifying and delivering change, you will design, document and implement process improvements wherever possible.
Coordinate with local accounting service providers and audit teams, you'll maintain compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements. You'll track the progress of accounts preparation, audit and filing across the PA Group. Your excellent attention to detail will enable you to thoroughly review local financial statements, providing valuable feedback to your team.
As part of the wider Group and Financial Accounting Team you will own various processes for the Group month and quarter end reporting requirements, delivering these on time and accurately.
We know the skill-gap and ' the need to tick every box' can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply – we'd love to hear from you.
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Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.
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We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
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