Ocorian
Senior Corporate Accounting Manager
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Company Description
Fund services | Corporate | Capital markets | Private client | Regulatory & Compliance
We help clients succeed by unlocking new value through expertise, trust, and scale. We deliver solutions that solve complex challenges faced by asset managers, financial institutions, corporates, high net-worth individuals, and family offices.
- Expertise: We deliver specialist, tech-enabled solutions for our clients grounded on deep industry expertise.
- Trust: We’re a trusted partner to over 8,000 clients globally. We are proud to have long-lasting partnerships with our clients.
- Scale: With more than 1,500 colleagues, we operate across 20+ countries, our scale enables us to support our clients globally and locally, providing a seamless client experience across borders and service lines.
What’s In It For You
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid working
- Private Pension Plan
- Private Medical Insurance
- Annual Salary Review
- Eligibility for bonus scheme
- Free Car Parking
- Free Onsite Gym
- Glider Bus stop outside of office
Job Description
About the Belfast Team
Our Belfast office is home to around 120 colleagues, with 70+ professionals across Fund Services including Accounting, Administration, Investor Services, Company Secretarial, and Depositary. Since opening in the Titanic Quarter in 2011, Belfast has become a key strategic hub for Ocorian, also supporting global functions such as IT, Finance, Compliance, HR, and Marketing.
The Corporate Accounting team works as an extension of our clients’ finance functions, delivering bookkeeping, management accounts, statutory financial statements, and audit coordination for a diverse portfolio of entities. The team offers excellent career progression opportunities, from apprentices and graduates through to senior leadership roles, supported by a flexible hybrid working model (typically two days in the office and three from home).
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Purpose of Role
As a key member of the Corporate Accounting leadership team, the Senior Corporate Accounting Manager will oversee the delivery of accounting and financial reporting services for a portfolio of renewable energy clients. This role combines technical accounting expertise, client relationship management, and team leadership, ensuring high-quality service delivery, operational excellence, and compliance with IFRS and UK GAAP.
Key Responsibilities
- Review bookkeeping, reconciliations, VAT returns, accruals, prepayments, loan interest calculations, and investment transactions.
- Oversee the preparation and review of management accounts, statutory financial statements, and regulatory reporting.
- Manage audit processes and maintain relationships with auditors and professional advisers.
- Ensure client reporting deadlines are met and accounting standards are consistently applied.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships, acting as the senior escalation point for complex accounting matters.
- Lead client and team meetings, coordinating the timely delivery of accounting services.
- Manage, mentor, and develop team members, driving performance, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Support business development activities, including fee proposals and meetings with prospective clients.
- Review and approve client payments and contribute to the development of departmental policies and procedures.
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Qualifications
Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- ACA, ACCA, or equivalent qualified accountant.
- Strong technical knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP.
- Significant experience in financial reporting, statutory accounts preparation, and audit management.
- Proven leadership experience, with the ability to develop and motivate high-performing teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Commercially aware with a client-focused mindset and a commitment to delivering high-quality service.
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Additional Information
All staff are expected to embody our core values that underpin everything that we do and that reflect the skills and behaviours we all need to be successful. These are:
- CLIENT CENTRIC: Clients are at the centre of our world, and we’re committed to providing expertise and specialist solutions to meet their most complex challenges.
- AMBITIOUS: We aim high. We think and act globally, seizing every opportunity to delight our clients and support our colleagues - wherever in the world they may be.
- AGILE: We act on our initiative to get things done for our clients. Our independence gives us the flexibility and freedom to keep things simple, efficient, and effective.
- COLLABORATIVE: With a curious mindset, we ask the right questions to get to the right solution, for our clients faster. We collaborate to win together and share our successes.
- ETHICAL: We behave with integrity at all times and assume positive intent, building trust through responsible actions and honest relationships.
Equal Opportunities for Everyone
Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you. You can reach us at [email protected].
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, or disability status.
Region: UK, CI, and Ireland
Jurisdiction: Belfast
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