Client Accounting Integration Manager

Investigo are delighted to be exclusively supporting a large Bedfordshire based Client who are the market leader in their field with the recruitment of a Client Accounting Integration Manager, on an 18 Month Fixed Term Contract basis.

Following the acquisition of a large competitor with a significant amount of client accounting operations, it has been decided to bring client accounting across the Group under one standard framework reporting into finance, establishing the minimum controls and recommending changes. The Client Accounting Manager is currently on maternity leave, and this contract role is being recruited to review, consolidate and implement a single control environment for client accounting across both all businesses within the Group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish a framework that will guide client accounting behaviours and monitoring
• Review and recommend the client accounting team structure and reporting lines
• Improve the control environment, embedding minimum control standard through regular review and ongoing communication, enforced by periodic audits
• Maintain and develop policies and procedures; driving standardisation (where appropriate) and change
• Ensure processes are optimised to record client funds accurately and timely, working with colleagues in a wider process optimisation project
• Review existing client accounting managers; experience, training and competency
• Development and preparation of a monthly dashboard to inform the CFO and Managing Directors of the status of client accounting
• Reviewing the control environment and procedures at each client accounting centre
• Reviewing the controls in branches where clients funds may be handled
• Review our regulatory obligations relating to client accounting
• Develop a plan to consolidate the smaller remote client accounting teams into the main centres
• Work with the Lettings operations team to develop plans to onshore client accounting functions
• Work in partnership with Finance Directors, Client Accounting managers and their teams to identify synergies and share best practice, skills, insights and feedback to enhance effective, consistent delivery of financial reporting activities to the business

Experience required to be successful in this role:

• A Professional Accountancy Qualification - ACA or ACCA (5 years + PQE)
• You will have had experience as an auditor, internal or external, and a good understanding of risk and control environment
• You are recognised for your diligent approach and attention to detail
• You a developed and maintained robust procedures strengthening controls and mitigating risk
• You have strong written and verbal skills to communicate succinctly
• You will be motivated and enjoy working autonomously and have effective project management skills to ensure deadlines and conflicting priorities are managed
• You will also enjoy working as part of an open and friendly team, with demonstrable experience of commitment to delivery of wider team goals and getting hands-on under pressure
• You will have thrived in dynamic environments, challenging the status quo and driving genuine change and improvements across businesses

Our Client is offering a salary of £60,000 - £65,000 + Benefits