Anderson Knight are seeking a Financial Accounting Manager to lead and elevate our accounting function, ensuring timely, accurate and insightful financial reporting while encouraging a culture of innovation and operational engagement.
About the Role
Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will oversee the daily operations of the Finance department. You will play a pivotal role in driving process improvement, strengthening internal controls and providing actionable financial insights to support strategic decision-making across the business.
This is an opportunity to lead a high-performing team, streamline processes and shape the financial backbone of the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual management accounts and statutory financial statements.
* Ensure full compliance with UK accounting standards, internal policies, and reporting deadlines.
* Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and journal entries.
* Manage year-end audit preparation and act as the primary liaison with external auditors.
* Supervise, mentor, and develop a finance team, driving a culture of accountability, learning, and high performance.
* Manage workloads, set priorities, and drive consistent delivery of accurate financial information.
* Champion ongoing professional development and coaching initiatives.
* Maintain and continuously enhance internal financial controls and processes.
* Develop, implement, and document accounting policies and procedures to ensure efficiency and compliance.
* Assist in the preparation of annual budgets and periodic reforecasts.
* Monitor performance against budgets, ensuring effective cost control and resource allocation.
* Identify and implement process efficiencies across the accounting function.
* Drive automation, system enhancements and adoption of digital tools to optimise financial operations.
* Promote a culture of continuous improvement within the finance team.
The ideal requirements are:
* Fully qualified accountant (CA or ACCA).
* Proven experience in a supervisory or management accounting role.
* Strong technical knowledge of UK GAAP.
* Excellent analytical, organisational and communication skills.
* Proficiency with accounting software (and advanced Excel skills.
* Experience in process improvement, system implementation, or digital transformation.
* Working knowledge of UK Gaap.
Why Join?
This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact on a developing organisation, enhance financial operations and lead a talented team. If you thrive in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment and are passionate about continuous improvement, we want to hear from you.
To apply, please submit an up to date CV now.