Senior Accountant

About the Role
We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our Finance team. This role will take ownership of the General Ledger function, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timely delivery of financial reporting for the UK entity.

You will play a critical role in month-end close, reconciliations, statutory audit support, and financial analysis, while partnering closely with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• • Perform a magnitude of different tasks for month-end and year-end closing;
    Lead the month-end close process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness for assigned areas
  • Maintain complete documentation and support for all accounting entries and balance sheet accounts
  • Perform monthly balance sheet account reconciliations and subsequent analytical reviews of any discrepancies;
  • Manage and review intercompany journal entries and their reconciliations;
  • Maintain and update accounting policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with GAAP and company growth
  • Maintain fixed asset master data, ensuring accuracy across asset class, cost centre, useful life, depreciation areas, and accounting assignments
  • Oversee CIP internal orders from setup through close‑out, ensuring correct settlement rules, classifications, and capitalization
  • Maintain strong SOX controls, documentation standards, approval workflows, and audit trails across fixed assets and internal orders
  • Review and document asset impairment reviews, providing evidence and support for internal and external audit requirements.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve controls, and drive efficiencies within the finance function
  • Tracking and managing trade spend, allocating invoices to promotions, monitoring invoice/accrual balances, and supporting actions to reduce aged or unallocated items.
  • Coach and develop team members to strengthen technical capability and process discipline, implement consistent review, feedback, and knowledge-sharing routines
  • Working with stakeholders to investigate variances and resolve root causes, using data to explain what’s happened and what it means.
  • Support ad hoc reporting, projects, and continuous improvement initiatives as  required

Qualifications:

• • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) at least 2 years PQE
  • Strong management accounting experience with proven ownership of month-end close
  • Extensive experience of statutory audit and controls (testing, implementation, documentation)
  • strong awareness of UK GAAP and Companies Act reporting requirements.
  • Advanced Excel skills and experience working with ERP systems such as SAP,
  • Ability to multitask and jump in and help where needed
  • Strong attention to detail and organisational skills
  • A collaborative mindset with a proactive and continuous improvement approach