Hybrid Financial Accounting Manager

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About the role

  • 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.

Job title

Financial Accounting Manager

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Salary

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Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

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