Are you a strategic and detail driven finance leader ready to shape the financial future of a major logistics organisation?
To be considered for an interview, please make sure your application is full in line with the job specs as found below.
We’re looking for an experienced Country Accounting & Finance Director to lead our UK & Ireland accounting function, partnering with senior leaders to deliver strong financial governance, exceptional reporting standards and world‑class transactional performance.
This is a high impact role at the heart of our UK & Ireland finance team perfect for someone who thrives in a dynamic, evolving environment and wants to influence financial outcomes at both local and regional levels.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
Reporting into the Regional Finance Director, you will be responsible for the full accounting perimeter across the UK and Ireland where you will lead all aspects of accounting governance ensuring compliant accounting and reporting, maintaining robust internal controls, overseeing statutory, tax and regulatory compliance and optimize accounting systems, processes and reporting standards.
You will maximise transitional accounting performance, driving improvement across AR, AP and RTR, reducing net working capital with effective cash management, strengthening relationships with shared services centers and identifying and delivering opportunities for cost optimisation and process efficiencies. You will deliver high quality financial insights, ensuring financial information is prepared to a consistently high standard, provide clear, timely and meaningful financial analysis to senior stakeholders and support business controlling and product teams to drive stringer business decisions.
You will drive continuous improvement and transformation, championing digitalization, process standardization and system optimisation, supporting integration projects, new entity set up and major regional activities. As well as collaborating across Finance, Treasury, FP&A and Business Controlling to ensure alignment.
This amazing role will see you developing and leading a highly performing team where you will lead, coach and grow a team of 8 direct reports and circa 50 indirect heads across the accounting finance team where you will build capability, driving engagement, development and career progression.
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualified
- Significant experience in a senior accounting leadership role
- Previous experience in a fast-paced, multi-matrixed, logistics environment would be desirable.
- Comprehensive expertise across AR, AP, RTR, Tax and Financial Control
- Strong IFRS and GAAP knowledge
- Exceptional communicator, able to shift comfortably from operational detail to executive light insight
- Rigorous, reliable, process driven and improvement focused
- Experience of using financial systems such as JD Edwards, SAP, OneStream, and Medius would be beneficial, however not essential.
This amazing role comes with a competitive salary, company car or car allowance, bonus, private medical and so much more.
WHAT DO WE HAVE TO OFFER?
With a genuine culture of reward and recognition, we want our employees to grow, develop and be part of our journey. We offer a benefits package that includes competitive annual leave entitlement with a fantastic holiday buy scheme, pension and life assurance along with access to an employee benefits platform that offers discounts on gym memberships and money off vouchers for a diverse range of retail, travel and hospitality brands. There’s no doubt that you will be compensated for your hard work and commitment so if you’d like to work for one of the top Logistics providers in the world then please do get in touch to find your next role.
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