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  • Ipswich, Suffolk
  • Salary negotiable
  • (Permanent)
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Position Summary
A small to medium sized plant, forms a part of a large global organisation, is recruiting for an Accounting Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for planning, organising and managing the daily operation of the Accounting functions and projects assigned to the site, while ensuring that department responsibilities are performed and completed in a timely and accurate manner.

Essential Functions
- Providing day to day direction and support to the accounting team ensuring expectations are communicated and departmental goals are achieved.
- Coaching, training and developing the team, including employee performance evaluations and providing career development planning and opportunities.
- Working together with the controller to evaluate and improve processes to enhance speed and accuracy of accounting tasks.
- Overseeing: Compliance & Taxes, AP/AR, & Payroll, budgeting, financial statements and cost reports, and analysis receipts and disbursements, general journals, fixed assets.
- Preparing forecasts and monthly management reports.
- Compiling an annual budget along with analysis to departments for variance analysis and cost reduction.
- Developing, implementing and assessing short and long-term programs, goals and objectives for accounting department.
- Ensuring that accounting practices, records, controls and decisions are made according to UK GAAP and Company policy.
- Organising and manage periodic stock takes and perform inventory reconciliations.
- Preparation of statutory accounts.
- Overseeing preparation and completion of the UK tax package
- Payroll administration and associated tax and government reporting.
- Performing other duties as required.

Position Requirements
- Right to live and work in UK
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified or equivalent accounting qualification i.e. degree in Finance or Accounting
- 7 years of broad-based accounting/reporting experience, including minimum 3 years supervisory or management experience
- Working knowledge of UK tax laws
- Experience working with and producing management and statutory accounts
- Excellent computer skills in the Microsoft Office environment with advanced Excel skills
- Experience in supervising, evaluating, training and motivating employees
- Excellent communication skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Experience working at multinational organisations and US GAAP will be advantageous
- Knowledge of SAP software