Accounting Manager in Glenrothes

Location: Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom

Salary: Competitive salary

Benefits:

• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, with opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Car/Car allowance
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
• Private Medical Insurance

What You Will Do:

The Accounting Manager will play a key role within the Central Finance function, overseeing the month-end close process and ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial reporting. This role is responsible for managing core financial controls, leading the preparation and submission of monthly results, and providing technical guidance to ensure compliance with US and UK accounting standards and internal governance frameworks.

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
• This role requires SC clearance and therefore eligibility 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 (internal and external audit)
• Previous involvement in an ERP transformation project including support with process mapping, system design, and post-go-live support

Month-End Close & Reporting:

• 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

Financial Controls & Compliance:

• Maintain a strong financial control environment, ensuring adherence to internal control frameworks (e.g., SOX and audit requirements) and provide support for any internal audits
• Oversee and improve reconciliation processes, ensuring timely resolution of reconciling items
• Design, implement, and monitor financial month-end submissions and reporting cycles, looking for ways to improve the processes across the team
• Lead external audits, providing required documentation and explanations to the auditors
• Ensure compliance with relevant company policies and accounting standards (e.g., US GAAP and UK GAAP)

Team Leadership & Collaboration:

• Supervise and mentor accounting staff, providing coaching, feedback, and development opportunities
• Work collaboratively across Finance teams to ensure accurate data submission and alignment with central finance expectations
• Partner with FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and other functions to ensure consistent reporting and strong communication flow

Continuous Improvement:

• 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
• Develop best practices and standard operating procedures for month-end and control activities

Hybrid: 3 days a week on site. Working hours include a 37-hour working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements. Potential candidates will learn about role type and current site status throughout the recruiting process.

Equal Employment Opportunity: RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.