Senior Management Accountant

Job Title: Senior Management Accountant

Location: Halifax, West Yorkshire

Salary: Negotiable depending on experience 

Our client is a leading global provider of workplace safety solutions, renowned for their commitment to innovation. They specialise in state-of-the-art solutions designed to safeguard people and assets across diverse sectors worldwide. From pioneering the world’s inaugural industrial-strength polymer barrier safety system to advancing cutting-edge workplace safety technology, they cater to a broad spectrum of clients, including warehouses, factories, airports, and car parks. Headquartered in the UK, they have established a presence in more than 65 countries, offering a dynamic and inclusive environment ripe with opportunities for professional growth and development.

Key Deliverables

• Produce management accounts for multiple overseas subsidiaries.
• Provide insight into performance issues.
• Strong balance sheet control and support of policies and procedures.
• Support the rollout of a new global ERP system.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and support the performance and development of Assistant Management Accountant.
• Liaise regularly with overseas finance staff to ensure accounts are closed in line with the month end timetable and ensure that any P&L performance issues are fully understood.
• Work with subsidiary management and finance staff to identify and improve performance issues.
• Manage subsidiary working capital in areas such as aged debt and cash flow forecasting.
• Involvement in performance review meetings with subsidiary and HQ management.
• Effectively reconcile and resolve any balance sheet issues to ensure accuracy and timeliness of P&L performance.
• Ensure newly acquired subsidiaries are successfully integrated into A-Safe’s policies, procedures and systems.
• Support any subsidiary tax issues.
• Deal with complex and ad hoc reconciliation issues, such as separate accounting systems in Mexico.
• Implement the group’s policies and procedures in all subsidiaries.
• Assist with month end consolidation routines.
• Partner with other departments, such as Marketing or Product Development to provide useful insight into their performance and enhance their support for the business.
• Assist with year-end audit and month end close.
• Assist with group annual budget process.
• Ad hoc projects as required.

Essential Requirements:

• Fully qualified accountant – ACA, ACCA or CIMA.
• Lateral thinker and problem solver.
• Enthusiastic team player – able to build constructive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Willingness to try new things, innovative & pioneering approach.
• Use to working with management accounts.
• Strong IT skills and desire to work with modern IT systems.
• Effective communication skills at all levels.

Desirable:

• Relevant industry background / experience.
• Worked with SAP or NetSuite ERP systems.
• Experience working with international subsidiaries.
• Experience of consolidating group accounts.

The  benefits package includes competitive salary, 33 days holiday, pension, flexible start & finish times, flex long-weekend scheme, the option to buy & sell holidays and free secure parking.

For more information please contact Travis Townsend at Imperial Recruitment Group.