Group Accounting Manager

Company

An established international organisation is seeking a Group Financial Accounting Manager to join its senior finance leadership team. This is a highly visible appointment within a complex multi entity environment, offering significant exposure to senior stakeholders and the opportunity to influence financial governance, reporting standards and operational excellence across multiple jurisdictions.

The position has arisen due to succession requirements and offers the successful individual the opportunity to take ownership of a substantial financial accounting function while contributing to wider strategic finance initiatives

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a geographically dispersed team of finance professionals.
• Oversee financial accounting activities across multiple legal entities and international locations.
• Manage monthly close processes, ensuring accurate and timely reporting into group consolidation.
• Drive improvements in financial controls, reporting quality and month end efficiencies.
• Lead statutory reporting activities and ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements.
• Manage external audit processes and coordinate relationships with auditors across multiple jurisdictions.
• Maintain oversight of tax compliance, governance and financial control frameworks.
• Review balance sheet risks and opportunities, providing meaningful insight to senior leadership.
• Support corporate projects including acquisitions, disposals and finance transformation initiatives.
• Act as a trusted business partner to finance and non-finance stakeholders across the organisation.

Key Skills preferred

• Qualified accountant
• Strong audit foundation with extensive post qualification experience.
• Significant financial accounting and statutory reporting expertise.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and complex accounting environments.
• Experience gained within a multi entity, international organisation.
• Exposure to ERP and group consolidation systems is advantageous.
• Strong governance, compliance and external audit experience.
• Proven experience leading and developing sizeable teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Comfortable operating across different cultures and geographical locations.
• Collaborative and approachable leadership style.
• Commercially minded with strong problem solving capabilities.
• Ability to balance technical excellence with effective people leadership.
• Experience managing remote or international teams is highly desirable.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an ambitious finance leader seeking a broad, high impact role with genuine scope to influence, develop teams and contribute to strategic decision making within a complex international environment.

If you combine strong technical accounting credentials with proven leadership ability and enjoy operating in a fast paced, multi stakeholder environment, we would welcome a confidential conversation to discuss the opportunity in more detail