Accounting Manager at Raytheon UK overseeing month-end close and ensuring accuracy in financial reporting while leading core financial controls and compliance.
Responsibilities
The Accounting Manager plays a key role within the Central Finance function, overseeing the month end close process and ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial reporting.
This role is responsible for managing core financial controls, leading the preparation and submission of monthly results, and providing guidance to ensure compliance with accounting standards and internal governance frameworks.
Lead and coordinate the end-to-end month-end close process across the business.
Preparation and review of monthly journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations.
Ensure the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of financial submissions into group reporting systems.
Analyse monthly performance results, identifying variances, trends, and potential risks or opportunities and utilise this to produce monthly management accounts and supporting schedules for senior leadership reviews.
Maintain a strong financial control environment, ensuring adherence to internal control frameworks (e.g., SOX and audit requirements) and provide support for any Internal audits.
Oversee and improve reconciliation processes, ensuring timely resolution of reconciling items.
Design, implement, and monitor financial month-end submissions and reporting cycles, whilst looking for ways to improve the processes across the team.
Take the Lead on external audits, providing required documentation and explanations to the auditors.
Ensure compliance with relevant company policies and accounting standards (e.g. US GAAP and UK GAAP).
Requirements
Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
Proven experience managing a month-end close process within a central or corporate finance environment ideally within a US group.
Strong accounting knowledge and understanding of financial controls.
Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
Experience of working within an SAP environment
This role requires SC clearance and therefore the successful applicant must be eligible to receive SC clearance.
Desirable Experience working in a large, multi-entity or multi-currency organisation.
Exposure to audit processes or an internal control framework i.e. Internal and External audit.
Previous involvement in an ERP transformation project including supporting with process mapping, system design, and post-go-live support.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
Car/Car allowance
Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
Enhanced sick pay
Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
Private Medical Insurance – dependant on grade
Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year
37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
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