Financial Accounting Manager

Anderson Knight are seeking a Financial Accounting Manager to lead and elevate our accounting function, ensuring timely, accurate and insightful financial reporting while encouraging a culture of innovation and operational engagement.

About the Role

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will oversee the daily operations of the Finance department. You will play a pivotal role in driving process improvement, strengthening internal controls and providing actionable financial insights to support strategic decision-making across the business. This is an opportunity to lead a high-performing team, streamline processes and shape the financial backbone of the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual management accounts and statutory financial statements. Ensure full compliance with UK accounting standards, internal policies, and reporting deadlines. Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and journal entries. Manage year-end audit preparation and act as the primary liaison with external auditors. Supervise, mentor, and develop a finance team, driving a culture of accountability, learning, and high performance. Manage workloads, set priorities, and drive consistent delivery of accurate financial information. Champion ongoing professional development and coaching initiatives. Maintain and continuously enhance internal financial controls and processes. Develop, implement, and document accounting policies and procedures to ensure efficiency and compliance. Assist in the preparation of annual budgets and periodic reforecasts. Monitor performance against budgets, ensuring effective cost control and resource allocation. Identify and implement process efficiencies across the accounting function. Drive automation, system enhancements and adoption of digital tools to optimise financial operations. Promote a culture of continuous improvement within the finance team.

The ideal requirements are:

Fully qualified accountant (CA or ACCA). Proven experience in a supervisory or management accounting role. Strong technical knowledge of UK GAAP. Excellent analytical, organisational and communication skills. Proficiency with accounting software (and advanced Excel skills. Experience in process improvement, system implementation, or digital transformation. Working knowledge of UK Gaap.

Why Join?

This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact on a developing organisation, enhance financial operations and lead a talented team. If you thrive in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment and are passionate about continuous improvement, we want to hear from you.

To apply, please submit an up to date CV now.