Job Description

Your primary objectives are to manage and improve financial and management reporting, to ensure all compliance obligations are met and to be effective and trusted business partners to the wider business team; reporting into the Finance Director.

• Jointly manage and improve month-end close process, driving improvement and automation of management accounts production. You will also have responsibility for timely production of monthly reconciliations and monthly variance analysis feeding into monthly management accounts and to help prepare/consolidate budgets and forecasts.
• Jointly be day-to-day point of contact for the auditors, dealing with audit queries, and be responsible for ensuring audited financial statements are prepared and signed off within the agreed deadlines.
• Support the Operations teams to ensure monthly billings are raised timely, and by reviewing lease and sale agreements to ensure that transactions are correctly recorded on accounting system and contract management system. Support the team to ensure creditors are paid timely.
• A key aspect of this role will be to continually identify areas for improvement and to be proactive in implementing such changes. You will play a key part in improving the design and structure of those reports.
• Be an effective business partner to the wider business e.g. preparing financial assessments of customers to support Marketing Directors’ business cases, advising them of accounting treatments and implications of proposed business transactions or to liaise with tax advisors on tax implications.
• A key aspect of this role will be to continually identify areas for improvement and to be proactive in implementing such changes.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA) with significant post-qualification experience in industry/commerce.
• Excellent technical accounting knowledge and comfortable in dealing in a multi-GAAP environment with a focus on US GAAP and experience in preparing financial statements including consolidation.
• Excellent Excel, PowerPoint and other MS Office skills. Demonstrable excellent financial modelling skills will be a plus.
• Excellent written skills and able to distil accurately the “story behind the numbers”.
• Excellent team working, communication skills, commercially astute, can-do attitude and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of Sun Systems, Hyperion, Salesforce, and accounts production software (e.g. Thomson Reuters AP) a plus.
• Leasing industry experience and/or interest in aviation and the airline industry also a plus.