Manager – Corporate Accounting

Job Description

The Manager is responsible for delivering high-quality accounting services through effective team leadership and operational oversight. This role involves managing team performance, developing staff capabilities, and ensuring consistent service delivery across all client engagements. The Manager oversees the preparation and review of complex deliverables while maintaining strong relationships with clusters and stakeholders. Additionally, this position drives operational excellence through monitoring and managing of key performance indicators (KPIs), resource optimization, and quality assurance. The Manager also provides technical guidance on complex client requirements, supervises and coordinates the team’s activities, ensuring compliance with IQ-EQ's policies and procedures.

What you'll do

• You’ll lead and manage team performance to deliver high-quality accounting services, overseeing complex deliverables and ensuring compliance with organizational policies, client agreements, and quality standards.
• You’ll drive operational excellence by monitoring KPIs, optimizing resource allocation (staff, budgets, and time), and implementing process standardization and quality control measures.
• You’ll build and maintain strong relationships with clusters and stakeholders while acting as the escalation point for complex client and team-related matters.
• You’ll provide technical leadership in corporate accounting areas (bookkeeping, financial statements, GL reconciliation, AP/AR, RTR, intercompany accounting, MANCO accounts) with working knowledge of US GAAP and accounting systems such as NetSuite, Sage, or QuickBooks.
• You’ll develop team capabilities through coaching, feedback, and training while demonstrating accountability, integrity, attention to detail, and a proactive, collaborative approach to achieving business goals.

WHAT WE OFFER  

• Comprehensive remuneration: Motivating financial packages based upon market rates for your role and is proportionate to your qualifications, level of experiences and skills profile
• Pension Scheme: Generous employer contribution with the ability to allow and increase employee contributions
• Wellbeing: Additional social benefits such as private health and dental cover, life assurance, discounted gym membership, eye test and corporate GP
• Annual leave: All our employees are entitled to 25 days paid leave, plus all UK public holidays. Enhanced maternity and paternity, including shared parental leave and adoption leave
• Flexible working: We recognise the value of working flexibly and is keen to ensure all employees enjoy an excellent work-life blend. As such, we are open to conversations with employees related to setting up flexible working arrangements
• Support and development: We will ensure you have the right training, tools and development plan to grow and improve your skills every day.

Qualifications

• You hold an MBA along with a qualification or progress toward CA/CMA (Chartered Accountant/Cost & Management Accountant).
• You bring strong academic knowledge in accounting, finance, and corporate reporting to support complex client requirements.
• You demonstrate a solid understanding of U.S. GAAP and core accounting principles relevant to corporate accounting functions.
• You complement your qualifications with hands-on experience in accounting systems such as NetSuite, Sage, or QuickBooks.
• You apply your educational background and professional training to drive accuracy, compliance, and high-quality service delivery.

Additional Information

Sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on us building and maintaining long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on our natural environment.  
There is always more we can, and should do, to improve – whether in relation to our people, our clients, our planet, or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture for our people, led by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion steering committee. 
Our learning and development programmes and systems (including PowerU and MyCampus) enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers, while our hybrid working approach supports our employees in achieving balance and flexibility while remaining connected to their colleagues. We want to empower our 6,500+ employees - from 94 nationalities, across 24 countries - to each achieve their potential.  Through IQ-EQ Launchpad we support women managers launching their first fund, in an environment where only 15% of all private equity and venture capital firms are gender balanced. 
We’re committed to growing relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients’ sustainability and success lead to our sustainability and success. We’re emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning