#BelongWithUs Come and join us as a Financial Accounting Manager on a 12 month FTC, and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.The Role: As our Financial Accounting Manager, you will play a crucial role in overseeing our financial accounting operations across the Highbourne Group ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of our financial records, while adhering to relevant accounting principles and regulations.  This is a brilliant opportunity for a Financial Accounting Manager to lead a successful financial accounting team in a business that is going through exciting transformation. The Financial Accounting Manager must be fully qualified and is offered on a 12 month FTC.Key Responsibilities Responsible for internal and external monthly reporting for the Group, including P&L, balance sheet and cashflow.Managing the relationship with the external auditors through the year and being the key contact during the year end audit.Review of all central balance sheet accounts ensuring reconciliations are completed appropriately.Managing the Group Accounting Manual and playing a lead role in the adoption of new accounting standards across the Group where required, providing guidance on accounting treatment as required by the Group.Maintain central finance user access to banking systems.Provides leadership, coaching and direction to all direct reports within the team.Responsible for the preparation and filing of annual statutory accounts for all Group entities.Supporting supplier rebates, from debt collection queries to rebate in stock calculations.This is a hybrid-based opportunity with true flexibility to work from home, but you should be within commutable distance of our newly refurbished offices in Crick, NorthamptonshireYou: You’ll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with an innovative and analytical approach to problem-solving.  You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Accounting & Finance team and you’ll thrive on delivering excellent & reliable management information.Skills and competencies Qualified Accountant.PQE working within a financial audit and controlling function is expected.Experienced in timely and accurate month end reporting with strong attention to detail even under pressure.Strong people management skills, able to inspire and develop those around you. Analytically-minded with experience of or desire to work alongside senior stakeholders right up to CFO level.Commercial experience in financial modelling (reporting, budgets, month-end etc).Clear knowledge of accounting systems and Microsoft excel/Google sheets.Understanding of IFRS required.Understanding of how to accurately account for supplier rebates and rebate in stock (RIS) calculations. It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: ACA, ACCA, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow, Building Products, CIMA, Construction, Finance Manager, Google Sheets, Group Finance Manager, Group Financial Accounting Manager, IRFS, Management Accountant, Management Accounts, Month End, P&L, Private Equity, Retail, Stock Rebates.Us: From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.Benefits Package and Cultural Environment: BonusDiscounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailersLife assuranceExtended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and moreMental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each otherComplete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages developmentFinancial education and loansFlexible working optionsA business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true selfAnd more!#BelongWithUs We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.