Manager - Financial Accounting Advisory
This is a high-profile position that involves working closely with Partners and other senior personnel, as well as key finance people in both publicly listed companies and multinational environments.
The team consists of proactive accounting specialists focused on providing practical solutions to clients' complex financial reporting issues.
Responsibilities:
* Project managing outsourced accounting and finance assignments for multinationals, including centralised statutory accounting projects, centralised statutory audit projects, and global taxation compliance projects;
* Ability to work across a portfolio of clients;
* Identifying process improvement in client working patterns and providing suggested remediations;
* Identifying new business opportunities and working with internal contacts to convert leads and opportunities into projects;
* Building and maintaining strong relationships with senior finance personnel;
* Managing and coaching junior team members;
* Promoting Financial Accounting Advisory Services both internally and externally, articulating all services and the value that we bring to our clients.
Skills:
* Experience of relationship management, negotiating with and influencing senior individuals, both internally and externally;
* Experience in Multinational / Shared Services desirable;
* Experience of managing audit relationships with knowledge of multi-jurisdictional audit assignments;
* Committed to relationship development and able to identify opportunities to deliver the best value;
* Genuine interest in financial reporting issues;
* Good communicator, highly articulate with excellent report writing skills;
* Passion for client service;
* Ability to learn quickly and keep abreast of the latest developments in financial reporting;
* Strong project management skills;
* Recognised accounting qualification;
* Minimum of 3 years of practical experience in dealing with accounting issues in a plc or equivalent organisation, either in Practice or Industry;