Senior Manager - Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting
- Location
- Warrington, Cheshire
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 03 Jul 2018
- Closes
- 31 Jul 2018
- Job Title
- Financial Planning and Analysis
- Category
- Construction, Manufacturing / Engineering
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Senior Manager: - Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting
Competitive Salary
Warrington
The Senior Manager - Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting role is a key role within the accounting and finance organisation and will work closely with the UK&I Financial Controller and EMIA Financial Controller.
As part of a dynamic team, you will have primary responsibility for providing technical accounting advice across EMIA. You will also supervise and direct the Centre of Excellence for external statutory financial reporting using your experience and expertise to drive efficiencies. You will interact with business leaders, corporate executives, internal and external audit and outside professional advisors. The role will operate across all of the AECOM divisions, ensuring accurate and timely internal and external financial reporting, managing the legal entity structures and optimising these structures to support the key business objectives of compliance, growth and cash generation.
Other responsibilities will include:
- Lead, coach and mentor the team to achieve best in class performance
- Provide timely, accurate and relevant technical accounting support to the EMIA business
- Supervise and direct the UK&I Centre of Excellence to drive the efficient production of statutory accounts using software to optimise performance. Drive an attitude of continual improvement in the use of accounts production software.
- Lead the roll-out of the UK&I Centre of Excellence approach to the production of statutory accounts to the wider EMIA geography.
- Manage the UK&I external audit process. UK&I currently has 45 audited companies including several major trading companies and the AECOM international holding company structure.
- Ensure UK&I financial statutory statements are accurate, comply with local GAAP and legal regulations and filed in accordance with local timescales.
- Manage implementation of new US GAAP accounting standards and corporate accounting policies across EMIA in conjunction with Global team.
- Work with EMIA wide controllership team to identify key business risks ensuring both correct accounting treatment and appropriate plans are in place to drive business performance improvement and/or risk mitigation
- Ensure the internal control environment is strong and compliant with public company requirements and AECOM policy.
- Support and drive strategic initiatives to drive efficiencies from the Finance organisation that comply with regulations and, where possible, centralise and use existing shared service centres
- Work with Tax, Treasury and legal to ensure that all tax, treasury and finance matters are compliant and optimised.
We are looking for a candidate who is relevantly qualified, this may include a bachelors degree (or equivalent), you should be Chartered and will ideally have US GAAP experience or be able to demonstrate your capability.
You must have extensive experience in accounting and reporting: specifically technical financial reporting, consolidations and audits in a public company environment.
Your benefits will include:
Helping our employees achieve a healthy work-life balance is important to us. If you join AECOM, as well as receiving a competitive salary, you’ll also have the opportunity to explore flexible working arrangements.
Core benefits:
- 25 days annual leave
- Company pension scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- One paid annual professional institution membership fee.
You can also choose from a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.
You’ll also be able to give back to communities with up to two paid CSR days each year. Through our charity, The AECOM Foundation, you can volunteer to support children in developing countries. And if you’re a member of the Reserve Forces you’ll receive an additional 15 days paid leave for training commitments.