Accounting Manager

About the company

IWG has been at the forefront of the flexible workspace revolution for more than 30 years. We have made it possible for organisations and individuals everywhere to take a new approach to the traditional working day. We have over 3,400 locations across over 110 countries allowing millions of people every day to have a great day at work.

Our customers are start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises, and large multinationals. With unique business goals, people and aspirations. They want workspaces and communities to match their needs. We provide them with choice through our portfolio of brands, covering serviced offices (Regus, Spaces, HQ, Signature and No18), commercial real estate brokerage and managed office solutions.

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Role Summary

This role leads the month-end quality control framework for financial accounting. The manager is responsible for ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and integrity of all accounts, enforcing control checks, driving compliance with accounting policies, and strengthening overall close governance. The position also partners with process owners to remediate recurring issues and to tighten preventive controls.

Key Responsibilities:

• Month-End Quality Control & Review

• Lead the monthly quality control cycle covering all balance sheet and P&L accounts.

• Validate accuracy of account reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and automated postings.

• Ensure issues are escalated and resolved before financial close deadlines.

• Accounting Accuracy & Compliance

• Enforce accounting policies, documentation standards, and internal control requirements.

• Assess compliance with global finance standards and audit expectations.

• Perform deep-dive reviews on high-risk, control accounts (suspense), accruals and provision accounts.

• Control Monitoring & Strengthening

• Maintain a robust control checklist for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end activities.

• Identify process gaps and implement preventive actions.

• Coordinate sign-offs from functional leads prior to close.

• Coordination

• Work closely with financial accounting teams, transactional finance teams to ensure validated and aligned balances.

• Collaborate with system and operations teams on integration issues, mapping errors, and automated control failures.

• Audit Support

• Check audit-ready schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.

• Ensure to address audit observations with long-term corrective actions.

• Continuous Improvement

• Monthly feedback, coordination with finance teams to address process and control gaps.

• Monitor trends in recurring issues and lead root-cause elimination efforts.
• Champion faster and more reliable close cycles (e.g., WD metrics improvement).

Position Requirements:

• Experience of financial accounting in a blue chip multinational PLC environment.
• Experience in in a multinational, shared services environment, volume intensive
• Experience of building strong relationships with peers and Finance Leaders.
• At least 10 years' experience in Finance and Accounting

Attributes, Competencies and Qualifications:

• Certified Public Accountant or equivalent
• Dynamic, hands-on, proactive self-starter. Resilience is a must.
• Strong team leader with the ability to coach and develop people
• Ability to identify the impact of each activity and adjust priorities accordingly
• Intelligent, numerate and able to quickly grasp complex issues.
• Excellent problem solving and organisational skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Results driven
• Ability to adapt to change, demonstrating flexibility and ownership of the change
• Proven ability to deliver to tight deadlines
• Ability to interact and collaborate with all levels and teams in the organisation
• A team player, with high energy levels
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Highly proficient in using various Accounting applications
• Customer service approach, focussed on serving all key stakeholders.