Job description

The Accounting Manager is responsible for owning all accounting operations across multiple international entities within a global B2B trading and distribution business executing high-value transactions across international markets. The role manages ERP systems including chart of accounts, cost centres, and entity structures while overseeing accounts payable, accounts receivable, and expense postings across multi-currency environments. The position includes executing supplier, vendor, and expense payments, maintaining reconciled supplier and customer ledgers, and managing monthly close processes to ensure accurate and timely reporting. Responsibilities include reviewing expenses, ensuring cost allocation by deal and entity, performing detailed P&L reviews for margin accuracy, tracking cost per deal, identifying margin leakage, and recommending corrective actions. The Accounting Manager builds real-time cash flow visibility aligned to trading cycles, optimises working capital through payment term management, collections, and cash timing strategies, and manages FX exposure including booking forward contracts and monitoring FX gains and losses. The role involves performing bank and balance sheet reconciliations, acting as primary finance contact with banking partners, preparing management reports including P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements, and managing intercompany accounting across regions. The position also ensures VAT filings, coordinates international tax compliance with external advisors, maintains audit-ready financial records, and improves finance processes, controls, and reporting within a fast-growing, entrepreneurial, data-led trading environment.