Group Accounting Manager - Gloucestershire, United Kingdom - Infinigate

Description

Group Accounting Manager:

• Gloucestershire*
• An outstanding opportunity to join Infinigate, Global Technology Distributor
• Would suit a technically strong Group Finance professional

About Our Client
Infinigate is a leading Value Added Distributor (VAD) of Cyber security solutions in Europe.

Infinigate offers state-of-the-art security solutions through its European partner network (VARs, integrators, consulting companies etc) to secure and protect Data,Clients, Servers, Networks and the Cloud.

Headquartered in Switzerland Infinigate has 40+ offices serving 50 countries globally.

Infinigate has highly ambitious growth plans to become the pan-european, value-add distributor for cyber securities. Having recently added Nuvias, Vuzion and StarLink to the Infinigate Group, they have quadrupled in size.

Due to the recent acquisitions Infinigate has created a Group Accounting Manager position, reporting to the Senior VP for Finance to oversee the Group Finances.

In this newly created position, the Group Accounting Manager for the holding company will have overall responsibility for ensuring the preparation of the holding company management and statutory accounts, supporting subsidiary accountants, collecting datafor analysis, development of systems/internal control environment and assisting with the preparation of the half year and year end Group financial statements.

Main Responsibilities:

• Accounting responsibility of our European group holdings (CH, DE, UK)
• Line management responsibility for one direct report in Switzerland handling daytoday bookkeeping of Swiss holdings and two indirect reports in Germany and UK handling German and UK holdings
• Recording investment (M&A) transactions and managing project cost centre accounting for group projects
• Calculating and invoicing group mgmt. fees
• Preparation of monthly internal accounts and annual financial statements of the group holdings according to Group Standards
• Reporting in consolidation tool (Tagetik) and BI (PowerBI)
• Maintaining the group accounting manual
• Reviewing group intercompany positions
• Assistance with the preparation of annual budgets and rolling forecasts of the group holdings
• Leading statutory audits of the group holdings and preparation of the corresponding documents
• Support further improvements on group internal control standards (adhoc and projectwise)
• Support data preparation for FP&A and group controlling
• Supporting of and working collaboratively with other finance (tax, treasury, controlling)
• Overseeing bookkeeping in NAV/D365 (general and sub ledgers)

The Successful Applicant

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration, ideally with focus on finance or similar education (e.g. CPA / charted accountant is a plus)
• At least 35 years of business experience in a similar role (group accounting, accounting standards, controlling, audit) with a consultancy or accounting company or with an international corporation
• Comfortable to work in a dynamic environment with multiple projects running simultaneously and delivering tangible results within deadlines
• Experience in introducing and consistently maintaining structured and efficient accounting processes and internal controls on financial reporting
• Good skills of Tagetik or a comparable consolidation and group reporting tool
• Excellent skills in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) the Group uses Swiss GAAP FER (mainly small deviations to IFRS much simpler)
• Speak and write in English at a high professional level is essential, German language skills are desirable
• Limited travel may be required during the annual audit.

What's on Offer
Attractive package

Please note all Applications (Direct or Indirect) will be sent to Michael Page for screening


Ref Code:
MPREJN Z**
Closing Date:16/01/2023