Accounting Manager - 9 month Fixed term contract

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Job Description

This role is a Fixed Term Contract for 9 months

Flexible working - We operate in a hybrid working environment where we come into the office at least 2-3 days per week.

This role will be aligned to our Global Innovation & Technology Centre based in Melbourn

Stuck in a rut, needing a new challenge?

Our Finance team are looking for an exceptional Accounting Manager. You will manage PA’s US, Germany, Norway and Mexico trading entities and will be responsible for:

• Managing month end close – ensuring all general ledger activities including fixed assets, accruals, prepayments and intercompany processes are timely and accurately performed.

• Reviewing balance sheet reconciliations.

• Preparing or managing the preparation of the statutory accounts by our outsource providers.

• Ensuring timely and accurate completion of VAT and local sales tax returns, other local government statutory and statistical reporting.

• Preparing information packs for the external audit and managing the audit process.

• Periodically assisting with SOX testing to ensure compliance with necessary controls.

• Supervising two Accounting Assistants in the team

Qualifications

About You

• Strong attention to detail & highly organised

• Experience of a large company and a multinational organisation.

• An individual with a ‘hands on’ attitude and an intellect to drill into transactional detail.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to deliver to deadlines.

• Strong communication and customer service skills

• Ability to prioritise and respond to multiple tasks in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Degree Qualification BSc / BA.

• Ideally you will be ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or newly qualified

• Proven role related experience.

• Working knowledge of PeopleSoft Financials accounting package preferred but not essential.

• Excellent Excel and spreadsheet skills

We know the skill-gap and ‘need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us at recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com

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