Senior Accounting Manager

ABOUT US

Liberty Global Shared Service Centre (LGSSC) acts as a central specialty service supporting the wider Liberty Global group with specialisms in areas of Finance, Accounting, People, Legal & Systems. This central team supports a number of businesses across the Liberty Global footprint including Virgin Media.

It is an exciting time to join us on our journey as we continue to grow our services; offering a wide range of opportunities to experienced talent who embrace a culture of change & collaboration.

Liberty Global is a world leader in converged broadband, video, and mobile communications services. Our businesses deliver next-generation products through advanced fibre and 5G networks that connect 85 million subscribers across Europe and the United Kingdom. Our businesses operate under some of the best-known consumer brands, including Virgin Media-O2 in the UK, VodafoneZiggo in The Netherlands, Telenet in Belgium, Sunrise UPC in Switzerland, Virgin Media in Ireland and UPC in Eastern Europe.

Our consolidated businesses generate annual revenue of more than $7 billion, while our joint-ventures in the U.K. and the Netherlands generate combined annual revenue of more than $17 billion.

Our global investment arm, Liberty Global Ventures, has a portfolio of more than 50 companies across content, technology and infrastructure, including strategic stakes in companies Plume, ITV, Lions Gate, Univision, the Formula E racing series and several regional sports networks

We're always looking for great talent that wants to Grow With Us.

If you're the kind of person who embraces change, challenges the status quo and has a "sky's the limit" attitude, then our place is your place. Come and join us!

JOB PURPOSE

Finance

Finance are responsible for the development and implementation of overall financial strategy from day to day controls, accounting policies and procedures to managing relationships with the financial community.

Management Accounts

Management Accounts deliver accurate internal reporting and analysis to internal and external stakeholders in Group Financial Control, Group Financial Planning and Analysis, Commercial Finance, external Auditors and the wider Accounting Services team, to support timely decision making and ensure the accuracy of external reporting. Key activities of the department are:

• Provide accurate monthly and quarterly results to agreed group timescales and in line with agreed group accounting policy
• Improve internal efficiencies through process improvement and collaboration with internal and external teams

• Flexing resource and outputs to meet the changing needs of our customers

Job Purpose

• To ensure provision of accurate monthly and quarterly reporting, and provide analysis & reconciliation review in line with agreed timescales and group policy
• To ensure appropriate accounting treatment (profit and loss/capex)
• To identify, manage and communicate operational and financial risks and process changes for your area
• To manage internal and external stakeholder relationships that impact your monthly processes
• Involvement and accounting assessment in various business initiatives
• Continual process development and improvement to provide accurate, meaningful and timely information to the business to aid commercial decision making.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Work with internal colleagues, monitoring completion of accounting tasks in your area.
• Overseas travel to build relationships with colleagues in Ireland (occasional)
• Identify and manage operational and financial risks to OCF and Balance Sheet accounts
• Manage, mentor and develop direct finance graduate report
• Processes & change: Understand and be an expert on the processes within your area, and liaise with stakeholders to understand business changes and strategy, and take responsibility to work with them to amend processes to ensure accounting remains accurate and timely, and other reporting requirements are addressed.
• Profit and Loss Accounting: review and present divisional reporting packs for internal stakeholders in line with required deadlines, plus any other adhoc reporting as required.
• Profit and Loss Accounting: provide variance analysis with meaningful commercial commentary
• Profit and Loss Accounting: work with Group Financial Control and Policy to ensure GAAP compliant policies are applied to profit and loss accounting entries
• Profit and Loss Accounting: identify and communicate non-recurring transactions
• Balance Sheet: responsible for Balance Sheet accounts, including review of reconciliations and ensuring adequate assurance activities have occurred, commercial and transactional completeness of commentary, and summarisation of key items
• Balance Sheet Reporting: review and present divisional reporting packs for internal stakeholders in line with required deadlines, plus any other ad-hoc reporting as required.
• Control: responsible for SOX control completion and effectiveness, payment approvals, chart of accounts mappings and governance changes for your area, and ownership of audit relationship for your area
• HFM: responsible for complete and accurate HFM reporting including movement code analysis and supplemental reporting for the division
• Statutory Accounts: provide support to Financial Accounts with the production of the Irish Statutory Accounts and associated audit requests from External Audit
• Corporation Tax Compliance: provide support to Group Tax with quarterly tax reporting and information requests to support the annual Corporation Tax Returns.

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
PREFERRED EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS:

• Professional Accountancy qualification (ACA; ACCA etc) with at least 3 year PQE.
• Management Accounts or Audit experience
• Knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS. Experience of working within large corporate structures.
• Strong excel skills essential.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of working in a complex environment, delivering to deadlines.
• Financial systems skills beneficial (e.g. Oracle, Hyperion/HFM)

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Process Improvement skills to able to recognise and improve inefficient processes through simplification and automation.
• Assurance mindset - the ability to review accurately, but also to identify risks in processes and reconciliations and articulate/resolve/mitigate these as part of the monthly accounting cycle
• Communicator - to provide clear and meaningful interpretation of analysis conducted. To be able to lead and control meetings with senior stakeholders
• Stakeholdering - to be able to understand finance and operational stakeholder's needs and requirements in order to provide excellent customer service. To understand the correct balance between challenge and support of these stakeholders in order to raise both the profile and external perception of the team
• Collaboration - working across internal and external teams in multiple locations to deliver improvements and best practice within the team
• Self- motivated - Well-organised, adaptable and resilient. Responds to challenging priorities with a sense of urgency and pace. Ability to work under pressure
• Solution driven - creative thinker, open to change and different ways of doing things
• Develops great relationships, is straight up and fair, always credible, accessible and approachable. Is mindful of the commercial aspects and impacts on people
• Always tries to delightfully surprise and exceed expectations, capable self starter & proactive, stand by decisions and actions, commit to things that are delivered
• Always look for ways to improve the service or experience given, is insatiably curious and works creatively to challenge the status quo and make decisions
• Through heartfelt service puts people first, shows energy and enthusiasm in their job commitment to working in a smart, collaborative & efficient way to deliver business value.
• Providing red hot sensational service in everything we do, professionalism and always thinking of the best way to partner the business effectively
• Create a smart disruption by challenging the way things are done, having a critical eye, learning from activities and being prepared to try new ways of doing things. Ability to adopt a consultative approach with our partners

* Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people.