Payroll Accountant and Intercompany Manager

Job description
At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:
• Safety first - Going home safe and well
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise
• Integrity - Always do the right thing
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel

The Intercompany and payroll accounting manager is responsible for managing the payroll and intercompany accounting teams. This includes overall responsibility of the payroll accounting function, ensuring UK accounts are correctly reconciled and allocation of charges across the business are correctly accounted. The role is also responsible for managing the intercompany accounting team, ensuring transactions are correctly allocated between counterparties, reconciliation of balances, and ensuring balances are agreed and correctly settled, with responsibility for the automated intercompany matching tool (ARCS). Based on a hybrid basis from our head office in Moorgate London.

You’ll be responsible for:
• Managing intercompany processing team providing line management to team, leading, guiding & providing strategic direction to achieve team KPIs.
• Establishing and maintaining processes and procedures to ensure that intercompany reconciliations are being produced in line with the group reporting timetable.
• Ensuring transactions are correctly coded in the general ledger (Oracle) and liaising with relevant business units to ensure all intercompany transactions are agreed.
• Maintaining intercompany account reconciliations & ensure intercompany invoices are raised in line with local statutory requirements.
• Producing and distributing global intercompany reports & communicate with international teams to confirm and agree intercompany balances.
• Providing commentary on material intercompany differences on both P&L and balance sheet accounts.
• Providing commentary to financial controller (corporate services) on material intercompany differences on both P&L and balance sheet accounts.
• Collaborating with the treasury team to settle intercompany balances on a regular basis and hedge any material FX exposures to reduce exchange rate risks.
• Ensuring accurate posting of payroll costs and payroll accounts reconciliations.
• Monitoring the cost to employ and standard rate cost build up, ensuring all elements are in line with actual costs.
• Ensuring all staff costs are accurately charged and allocated to the correct projects/cost centres.
• For payroll accounting processes, identifies opportunities for continuous improvements and control improvements.
• Liaising with HR, tax and other stakeholders on payroll related matters. Stakeholders include working with international professional tax and accounting advisors.
• Execution of the group TP policy, supporting the team with calculation, postings and preparation of intercompany invoices.
• Management of corporate group recharges.
• Providing support with statutory audit, responds to inquiries by gathering and interpreting data & is involved in ad hoc requests/project work including finance improvement programmes.

You’ll need to have:
• Strong knowledge of professional accounting standards.
• Qualified CIMA, ACCA or ACA, with a minimum of three-year PQE (post qualification experience) or equivalent.
• Financial and management accounting practical experience (or equivalent).
• Strong knowledge of transactional accounting and close processes.
• Strong experience of payroll accounting.
• Collaborates well with internal and external stakeholders, building trusting and respectful relationships.
• Demonstrates clear, concise written and verbal communication.
• Uses their own judgment to make decisions and escalate problem when necessary.
• Adapts and reacts well to changing priorities and requirements.
• Uses data, data analysis or other evidence to support solution finding process.
• Works in a systematic, methodical and orderly way.
• Seeks opportunities to learn and share knowledge.
• Acts inclusively, treats all people with respect in a fair and consistent manner.
• Takes ownership to identify, solve and overcome challenges.
• Leads by example and delivers on commitments.

You’ll also have:
• Experience of using Oracle fusion.
• Experience of intercompany accounting.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.

We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.

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