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Accounting Manager
As our new Accounting Manager, you'll lead the delivery of accurate and timely financial reporting while developing a high-performing Accounting team. Combining hands-on accounting with people leadership, you'll take ownership of key areas of the month-end close and ensure our financial reporting is accurate, well controlled and delivered to a consistently high standard.
You'll also play an important role in transforming how our Accounting team operates. Working closely with Finance Business Partners, FP&A, Data & Systems and operational stakeholders, you'll challenge existing ways of working and identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate our accounting processes. If you're a qualified accountant who enjoys developing people, improving processes and making a tangible impact, we'd love to hear from you.
This is an opportunity to help shape the next phase of our Accounting function. You'll have the autonomy to challenge how we work today, develop the team and build simpler, stronger and more efficient accounting processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and lead the month end close process, ensuring accurate financial reporting is delivered within agreed deadlines.
- Take ownership of key balance sheet and P&L areas, including journals, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations, providing clear analysis and commentary on key movements, risks and issues.
- Lead, coach and develop Management Accountants and Assistant Accountants, empowering the team to take ownership, challenge existing ways of working and continuously improve how we operate.
- Strengthen financial controls and accounting processes, ensuring policies and standards are consistently applied across the business.
- Drive simplification, standardisation and automation, reducing manual processes and improving the efficiency and quality of financial reporting.
- Partner with FP&A, Finance Business Partners, operational teams and wider Finance functions to provide accounting guidance, resolve issues and support transformation initiatives.
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Requirements
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification with strong technical accounting knowledge.
- Experience leading, coaching or mentoring colleagues within a finance or accounting team.
- Strong experience managing month-end close and delivering accurate financial reporting to deadline.
- A proven track record of improving accounting processes, controls and ways of working.
- A continuous improvement mindset, with experience simplifying, standardising or automating finance processes.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, alongside advanced Excel and ERP system experience.
Benefits
- A competitive salary alongside inclusion into our company bonus scheme. Our Cromwell Incentive Plan reinforces our key principle of winning as one team and sharing in our success.
- Enhanced employer pension contribution.
- Our Private Medical Insurance offers eligible team members the ability to access a broad range of treatments quickly when they need it the most.
- 20 days annual leave entitlement plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity pay to support you and your family during life's important moments.
- A company-funded Healthcare Cash Plan, giving you access to everyday healthcare benefits.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), providing confidential support whenever you need it.
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities to support your continued professional and career development.
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Who are Cromwell?
No matter where you are in your career – or where you want to be – we're here to create a great place to work where you can grow, perform and love what you do. At Cromwell, we're all individuals with unique backgrounds and personalities, but we have one thing in common: delivering exceptional service for our customers. And we do this through our purpose of Keeping Industry Working.
Cromwell has been established for over 50 years and is one of the UK's leading suppliers of industrial tools, maintenance, repair and operational products. We provide our customers with an unrivalled range of products and technical expertise, helping businesses across a wide range of industries operate safely, efficiently and effectively.
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Our aim is to create an environment that is welcoming to all people and ensures we treat each other and our customers with respect. We value different perspectives, encourage innovation and create a workplace where everyone feels able to contribute, develop and succeed.
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