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Providing financial controls and accounting oversight and direction to overseas affiliates.\nWhat You'll Do\nFully qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA or equivalent CA qualification), ideally with a background in external audit.\nManagement of EMEA accounting operations, oversees all transactions related to general ledger, receivables, payables and financial reporting.\nOwnership of EMEA consolidation reporting ensuring monthly deadlines achieved and full reconciliations provided.\nOwnership of the statutory reporting books and associated reconciliations.\nFollow structured monthly close and reconciliation review process in order to complete a month-end close within seven business days. \nPreparation of monthly management reporting adhering to month end deadlines.\nOversee the correct processing of fixed assets and lease accounting (IFRS 16)\nLead role in evaluating, developing, implementing and documenting new accounting policies and procedures to respond to changes in GAAP, tax and regulatory requirements.\nManage relationships with shared service center and external auditors.\nCoordinates and manages the annual group, UK and EMEA audits ensuring deadlines are achieved and a high standard of working papers and supporting documentation provided.\nEnsure full compliance for tax, VAT and other relevant taxes in the EMEA region. \nManages accounting integration of acquisitions and/or new business ventures and quickly establish robust financial controls and align to group accounting policies.\nManages accounting of entity rationalising, impairment calculation and acquisition accounting. \nMaintain strong financial controls and escalate issues appropriately and in a timely manner.\nManagement of two accounting staff to ensure deadlines are met, records are accurate and controls remain intact.\nPromotes a supportive team environment and provides work direction and guidance including coaching, professional development and training. Monitors and analyses team work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy.\nIdentify potential process efficiencies & contribute towards a high standard, continuous improvement culture.\nAd hoc tasks and projects as required.\nWhat’s Required\nFully qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA or equivalent CA qualification), ideally with a background in external audit.\nMinimum of 3 years' post-qualification experience, with a strong foundation in financial accounting and audit.\nStrong technical accounting knowledge, with experience supporting or managing external audits and responding to auditor queries.\nExperience managing and developing an accounting team, including setting objectives, providing feedback and conducting performance reviews.\nStrong Excel skills, including VLOOKUPs, SUM functions and PivotTables.\nHighly adaptable and proactive, with the ability to work independently, solve complex problems and manage changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.\nStrong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to work collaboratively across finance teams and wider corporate functions.\nA collaborative team player with a hands-on approach and the ability to take ownership of tasks and deliver to deadlines.\nExperience working with US GAAP would be advantageous.\nTHE·TEAM does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4255,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Media & Entertainment","Sports","Sports Media","Music Industry"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-22T01:45:35Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":54,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":0.9,"p_active":0.602,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":37,"reasons":["conf:72","stale_co","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-team-finance-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/the-team-finance-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T08:43:38Z","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":12361,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"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":1842789},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1842789"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fthe-team-finance-manager"},{"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%2Fthe-team-finance-manager"},{"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%2Fthe-team-finance-manager"},{"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/the-team-finance-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fthe-team-finance-manager"}]}