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The role will provide accurate and timely financial insight across management accounts, manufacturing costs, margins, working capital, and business performance, while working closely with operational and commercial teams to improve efficiency, cost control, and profitability.\nThis is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious commercially minded accountant to gain broad, hands-on experience within a growing company. With the business continuing to expand, there is significant scope to develop your skills, take on greater responsibility and progress your career while making a meaningful contribution to the company’s continued success.\nKey Responsibilities\nPrepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts and financial reports for designated business divisions.\nPrepare and maintain monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring financial information is complete, accurate and supported by appropriate documentation.\nHandling of tax matters such as preparation and submit quarterly VAT returns, corporation tax and others. \nReview and reconcile intercompany transactions and balances. \nContribute to the preparation of year-end schedules, audit information and statutory reporting support.\nPrepare and maintain cash flow forecasts ensuring visibility of expected cash requirements and liquidity. \nMonitor performance against budget, provide regular forecasts and variance analysis. \nPrepare and post payroll journals across projects and overhead cost centres.\nWork with production, operations, procurement, sales and supply teams to provide financial insight. \nMaintain the fixed asset register and monthly depreciation.\nManage monthly accruals, prepayments, lease and associated journals.\nManaging multi-currency reporting, FX exposure and intercompany recharges.\nCollating data for grant claims and liaising with grant authority. \nLiaising with external auditors, tax advisers on audit, tax, transfer pricing, and other matters.\nIdentify and implement opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting, and internal controls.\nAny ad hoc tasks to support the Head of Finance and Finance Manager. Provide general finance support to the Finance team. \nPreferred Knowledge / Skills / Experience\nPart qualified or newly qualified accountant (ACCA/ICAS/CIMA) with 3-5 years management accounting experience. Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and month-end reporting.\nExperience using ERP systems such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle or similar.\nExperience working in a Japanese company desirable. \nExperience with inventory accounting and manufacturing environment preferred.\nAbility to work effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.\nExcellent attention to detail and accuracy.\nMust have right to work in UK.\nWhy Join Us?\nCompetitive salary. \nAttractive employer contribution pension scheme.\nStudy support offered. \nAn exciting opportunity to join a growing organisation and play a key role in supporting its continued success and growth.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nAbout our project in Port of Nigg, Highland\nSumitomo Electric is one of the leading global manufacturers of state-of-the-art high-end electricity transmission \ncables, up to and including 525kV HVDC(High Voltage Direct Current) cable.\nThe new factory at Nigg, with investment value announced by the Scottish Government of £350M, will make a \nsignificant contribution towards realisation of the UK Net Zero Target by contributing to critical electricity transmission\ninfrastructure to connect and deliver renewable energy, including offshore wind, to UK consumers and beyond. \nIn addition, the factory will create more than 150 highly skilled jobs in the Scottish Highlands, with maximum \nutilisation of the local supply chain for production of cables and construction of transmission cable systems.\nIn a significant boost for the UK green energy supply chain, Sumitomo Electric has commenced construction \nof its state-of-the-art subsea transmission cable factory in the Scottish Highlands. \nThe factory will supply critical elements for the reinforcement of the UK electricity transmission grid and for \nconnecting renewable energy production facilities to the grid.\nAbout Sumitomo Electric Group\nSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. is a recognized global technology leader with over 290,000 employees working \nat around 400 group companies in 40 countries. Building on more than 120 years of innovation, today \nSumitomo Electric is engaged in diversified business activities that support people’s daily lives and \nindustries in five business segments: automotive, infocommunications, electronics, environment & energy, and \nindustrial materials. To learn more about Sumitomo Electric, \nplease visit https://sumitomoelectric.com, https://sumitomoelectric.com/company/office_group_companies/sumitomo-electric-uk-power-cables-ltd\nand our YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/SumitomoElectric/).\nFollow us on LinkedIn \nhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/sumitomo-electric\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/sumitomo-electric-uk-power-cables/","description_format":"text","description_chars":5502,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":3,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Optical Communications","Electrical Equipment & Cables"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T05:58:44Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-21T06:25:45+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":89,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.894,"p_room":1,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sumitomo-electric-management-accountant","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sumitomo-electric-management-accountant.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-22T05:09:44Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5908,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":96813},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=96813"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsumitomo-electric-management-accountant"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsumitomo-electric-management-accountant"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsumitomo-electric-management-accountant"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sumitomo-electric-management-accountant\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsumitomo-electric-management-accountant"}]}