senior management accountant

Title: Senior Management Accountant

Location: Sheffield

Full time, Permanent 

Salary:  £50,000 to £57,500

Tes is an international provider of digital solutions, which is passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions. 

Role overview: 

This role takes responsibility for the reporting of financial information, including but not limited to: monthly departmental management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analysis and budget/forecast information. 

As we grow as a business you will be providing support on financial aspects of Group projects, including integration of acquired businesses, system migration and integrations, as required.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Co-ordinate delivery of financial information based on Group level reporting requirements for the relevant stakeholders. Gain an understanding of Group consolidation processes to support as required with consolidated financial results;
• Ensure the accuracy of the underlying accounting records of the Group; 
• Support with the review of financial information and provide commentary on results against budget / forecast / expectations;
• Support with external advisors where required with financial audit and post-acquisition integration;
• Support with the year end process, liaising with the external auditors as appropriate; 
• Keep up to date with accounting developments and assess the impact of proposed changes on the Group;
• Provide financial input to multi-functional projects and provide insightful advise and analysis;
• Effectively co-ordinate relevant activities with the rest of the Finance team as appropriate; 
• Work with operational departments on financial matters;  
• Provide support to the Financial Controller; 
• Provide high service levels to the business

What will you need to succeed? 

• Qualified accountant ACA
• Gained good general understanding of accounting
• Experience gained in related media, technology or digital field
• Able to communicate at all levels to negotiate, persuade and influence others across the business
• Able to assess and respond to the needs of the business
• Technically strong, with a good understanding of IFRS and minimum requirement of financial control 
• Self starter, high degree of personal motivation and proactive
• Proactively challenges status quo and identifies areas for improvement
• Commercially astute
• Strong organisational and interpersonal skills
• Honest and high level of integrity and confidentiality
• Team player

What do you get in return? 

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 
• 5% pension after probation
• Hybrid working, 2+ days in the office
• Health care cash plan
• State of the art city centre offices 
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World 
• Discounted city centre parking  
• Free eye care cover 
• Life Assurance 
• Cycle to Work Scheme 
• EAP (Employee assistance programme) 
• Monthly Tes Socials 
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu 

Who are Tes?

Tes powers schools and enables great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

For more than 100 years, we’ve supported schools and been a champion of great teaching. As education is changing, so are we. We’ve grown to provide a wide range of products to help schools and students flourish. 

We work together with teachers and schools to build trusted education solutions that help them to be the best they can be. From safeguarding and compliance, to staff and pupil management, and professional development and SEND provision, our innovative and flexible services help teachers and school leaders worldwide to provide the best education to millions of children. 

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine. 

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai. 

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organisation striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes. 

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability.  We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required. 

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