This senior role offers the opportunity to oversee group accounting, drive improvements in financial processes and provide trusted guidance to stakeholders across the organisation. If you enjoy combining technical accounting expertise with leadership, process improvement and cross-border collaboration, this position offers a broad and rewarding remit!
Location
Guernsey,
Channel Islands
Duties for this role include, but are not limited to:
- Leading the preparation of group financial statements and management accounts.
- Ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions.
- Developing and maintaining strong financial controls, policies and procedures.
- Supporting forecasting, budgeting and performance analysis.
- Overseeing audit processes and acting as key contact for external auditors.
- Providing technical accounting guidance to finance colleagues and the wider business.
- Ensuring timely reconciliation of office bank accounts with appropriate review and sign-off.
- Investigating reconciliation variances and strengthening controls where required.
- Overseeing tax compliance across all jurisdictions, including corporate tax, GST/VAT and other returns.
- Coordinating regulatory reporting submissions to relevant authorities.
- Keeping up to date with tax and regulatory developments and advising the group accordingly.
- Liaising with external advisers and regulators.
- Managing accounting for partner distributions, capital interest and related reporting.
- Supporting partner reporting, including draw schedules, profit allocations and disclosures.
- Providing accurate financial information to support preparation of partners' tax returns.
Skills / Qualifications
The ideal candidate will be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience, ideally within professional services or a law firm. They will have strong technical knowledge of IFRS/FRS and multi-jurisdictional accounting requirements, proven experience improving financial processes and controls, and excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills. Proficiency in Excel and confidence managing a team are essential. Experience with Elite 3E and trust/company accounts would be advantageous.
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