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.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. 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 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 on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com

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