Gl Accounting Manager

Marc Daniels are working with a growing and well-established business who are looking to recruit a GL Accounting Manager to join their finance team. This is a key leadership role, responsible for managing the General Ledger function, driving process improvements, and ensuring an efficient and controlled month-end close process.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and manage a high-performing General Ledger team of approximately 8 finance professionals.
• Oversee all General Ledger activities, ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance with accounting standards.
• Take ownership of the month-end close process, ensuring timely and accurate reporting across the business.
• Identify, implement and drive process improvement initiatives to streamline accounting operations and enhance financial controls.
• Optimise and continuously improve month-end procedures, reducing close timelines and increasing reporting efficiency.
• Review and approve balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and resolving any discrepancies.
• Ensure robust financial controls are maintained and adhered to across the team.
• Partner with key stakeholders across Finance and the wider business to improve processes and reporting outputs.
• Support statutory audit requirements and act as a key point of contact for external auditors.
• Monitor team performance, providing coaching, development and succession planning.
• Drive standardisation, automation and best practice across General Ledger processes.
• Assist with projects relating to systems enhancements, finance transformation and process optimisation.

Essential Experience

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven experience managing a sizeable finance team, ideally 8 or more direct reports.
• Strong General Ledger accounting background within a medium to large organisation.
• Demonstrable experience leading process improvement and finance transformation initiatives.
• Track record of optimising and improving month-end close processes.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, balance sheet reconciliations and financial reporting.
• Experience working within complex ERP systems.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Proactive leadership style with a focus on continuous improvement and team development.

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