Job Description
Financial Accounting Manager
Core3 are delighted to be partnering with a leading international organisation to recruit a Financial Accounting Manager for their Bristol finance hub. This is a fantastic opportunity to take a senior leadership role within a centralised accounting function that supports multiple regions across the globe.
Why join our client?
You will join a sophisticated finance environment that operates at scale across multiple continents. The business is investing in its global finance operations, with a strong focus on consistency, automation, quality, and process improvement.
This is a key leadership role within a high-performing team responsible for delivering accurate financial reporting, overseeing shared services output, and strengthening global accounting standards.
How you’ll make an impact
As Financial Accounting Manager, you will oversee month-end and period-end processes, manage a team of qualified and part-qualified accountants, and ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial outputs across multiple regions. You will also be responsible for performance oversight of offshore teams, ensuring high-quality service delivery and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the review of month-end results and financial outputs prepared by shared service and offshore teams
- Approving complex or high-value journals and ensuring robust financial controls
- Supporting Financial Control with audit requirements and technical accounting queries
- Overseeing the effective operation of central Record to Report and Asset to Record processes
- Managing the relationship with the outsourced accounting provider, handling escalations and supporting service improvement
- Ensuring capacity planning is in place and resources are aligned to workload needs
- Monitoring quality, compliance, and timeliness of offshore output, providing coaching and feedback where needed
- Collaborating with senior finance leadership to help define global accounting strategy and service standards
- Acting as a point of escalation for accounting issues raised across finance and non-finance teams
- Identifying risks, driving resolutions, and escalating as appropriate
- Supporting ongoing transformation initiatives, including process redesign and technology enhancements
Why our client is excited about you
You are a qualified accountant with a strong technical foundation and experience working in a complex, multinational environment. You understand how to lead teams, manage performance, and drive high standards in a shared service or centralised accounting function.
You will also bring:
- Strong knowledge of IFRS and the ability to apply technical standards to monthly processes
- Experience managing accounting teams within large organisations or shared service environments
- Proven ability to challenge, refine and execute core accounting processes
- A track record of leading, motivating, and developing high-performing teams
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage confidently with stakeholders at all levels
- Experience working with ERP systems such as Oracle, SAP, or Workday
- Strong understanding of modern finance transformation trends, automation, and process optimisation
- Full accounting qualification ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
What you’ll get in return
- Competitive salary depending on experience
- Hybrid working with three days per week typically in the Bristol office
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Flexible working arrangements
- Access to global career development opportunities
- A supportive and collaborative leadership team
- The chance to contribute to global accounting excellence in a highly respected organisation
If this role feels like the right next step, apply today or contact louis@core3.co.uk // 0117 213 0300 for more information.