Accounting Manager in Harlow

Benefits & Compensation

• Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary Life Assurance with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) plus statutory public holidays, with option to buy and sell up to 5 days
• Car/Car allowance
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice options, including Health Cashplan, Dental and Cycle to Work
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
• Private Medical Insurance

Working Hours & Culture

• 37‑hour working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site‑specific arrangements.
• Remote, hybrid and site‑based working opportunities are provided depending on needs and role requirements.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role).

What You Will Do

• Lead and coordinate the end‑to‑end month‑end close process across the business.
• Prepare and review monthly journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ensure the completeness, accuracy and consistency of financial submissions into group reporting systems.
• Analyse monthly performance results, identifying variances, trends and potential risks or opportunities and produce monthly management accounts and supporting schedules for senior leadership reviews.
• Maintain a strong financial control environment, ensuring adherence to internal control frameworks (e.g., SOX and audit requirements) and support for internal audits.
• Oversee and improve reconciliation processes and timely resolution of reconciling items.
• Lead the external audit process, providing required documentation and explanations to auditors.
• Ensure compliance with relevant company policies and accounting standards (e.g., US GAAP and UK GAAP).
• Supervise and mentor accounting staff, providing coaching, feedback and development opportunities.
• Collaborate across Finance teams and partner with FP&A, Treasury, Tax and other functions to ensure consistent reporting and strong communication flow.
• Evaluate current close and control processes, identifying opportunities to improve speed, accuracy and control quality while maintaining a strong control environment.
• Lead or support finance transformation initiatives such as automation, standardisation and system enhancements, and provide support with enhancements and implementations of the ERP system.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Proven experience managing a month‑end close process within a central or corporate finance environment, ideally within a US group.
• Strong accounting knowledge and understanding of financial controls.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data.
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Experience working within an SAP environment.
• SC clearance required; the successful applicant must be eligible to receive SC clearance.

Desirable Experience

• Working in a large, multi‑entity or multi‑currency organisation.
• Exposure to audit processes or an internal control framework (e.g., internal and external audit).
• Previous involvement in an ERP transformation project, including process mapping, system design and post‑go‑live support.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience (or 5 years for an advanced degree) in finance or accounting.
• Understanding of impact on other organizational areas.

Equal Opportunity Statement

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be considered without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.