Country Controllership Manager

Statutory Manager – UK and Ireland

Accenture is a finance, technology and consulting company delivering change for our clients and our people across the globe. We’re helping drive a technology revolution—from digital to cloud to security—that’s sweeping across industries and governments in virtually every country. We collaborate with our clients—including 80% of the Fortune 500—to transform their businesses to anticipate the evolving needs of their customers. At the same time, we strive to enable our people to build their careers in an open environment of inclusion and diversity, complemented by our competitive employee benefits approach. 

Our Global Finance team works at the heart of Dublin’s digital docklands to provide strategic, operational, and analytical support across Accenture’s Global businesses. We drive career progression and skills development because we recognise that we succeed only when our people grow.

The Statutory Manager is responsible for the overall management and leadership of all aspects of local compliance reporting for the UK and Ireland. This incorporates control of the execution and delivery of all financial statements requirements in line with internal policy deadlines, planning and execution of statutory audits, liaising with external advisors and ownership for Compliance controls.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop and supervise team members in the production of all UK and Ireland statutory deliverables.
• Manage the relationship with Country Controller on a day-to-day basis; instill and nurture a strong Business Partnership.
• Responsibility for planning and managing the statutory compliance timetable for the UK and Ireland entities in line with Accenture’s internal policy deadlines.
• Responsible for reviewing and analysing the impact of new or updated accounting standards on the business and communicate impact to stakeholders
• Manage SOX compliance across countries supported
• Work with Ventures & Acquisitions team on business transfers, acquisitions and liquidations
• Support and coach team members and ensure adequate succession planning is in place to ensure long-term performance of the team.
• Handle escalated queries and build strong country based knowledge.
• Ensure integrity and completeness of financial records and internal financial controls
• Manage the relationship with auditors answering queries & providing data as required.
• Involvement in setting up and improving on processes with a view to making them more efficient
• Identification of scope expansion possibilities and management of projects to implement same.
• Maximise team performance through target management and motivation
• Facilitate and provide cross team support as required
• Provide reporting to management on issues, statistics, metrics and projects

Skills:

• Thorough knowledge of Accounting standards (IFRS and US GAAP)
• Accounting background with strong analytical skills
• Positive attitude and flexible
• Strong Project management skills
• Customer focused
• Sense of responsibility, initiative and high quality work standard
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise
• Team worker with ability to coach and motivate team

Qualifications and Experience:

• Professional accountancy qualification ACCA, CIMA or ACA
• 7+ years of progressive financial accounting experience
• Supervisory and project management experience
• Strong technical knowledge of US GAAP

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 569,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.