Finance and Accounting Manager

Finance and Accounting Manager, US (Remote)

Linnworks is seeking a highly motivated, energized, and high achieving Finance & Accounting Manager to join our team, working remotely from the USA (East Coast) and reporting to the Head of Finance and Accounting in the UK. This will be a pivotal role in creating a best-in-class Finance team, managing and overseeing all aspects of our accounting operations. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys working in fast-paced environment, where there is a continuous focus on evolving processes.

Responsibilities will include:

• Managing global accounting preparations/operations (Accounts Payable, Employee Expenses, Payroll, Fixed Assets, Prepaids, Accruals, and General Ledger), ensuring all accounts and journal entries have appropriate supporting documentation.
• Driving improvements to month end processes to increase efficiency and accuracy of reporting. Performing detailed review of all accounts in the balance sheet and P&L to identify discrepancies and provide a monthly variance analysis. Respond to queries by FP&A on fluctuations and corrections to department and general ledger allocations.
• Administering US and UK payroll, including payroll compliance, and handling queries related to payroll and the pension schemes.
• Coordinating our semi-monthly US payroll, including setting up new members of staff.
• Administering the reimbursement of employee expenses, including reviews, approvals and reporting, providing guidance to employees on the reimbursement process. Continuously improving the expense reimbursement process.
• Removing terminated employees from finance owned systems on a timely basis.
• Ensuring all financial reporting is accurate and compliant with statutory law and financial regulations (VAT, corporate tax, UK statutory reporting, PAYE and US payroll compliance etc).
• Co-ordinating and liaising with the auditors and managing the Group’s audit engagement providing high quality information, ensuring the audits are completed on time and with ever-reducing number of audit differences. Preparing and reviewing UK statutory reports for consolidated and stand alone entities.
• Making payments to our subsidiaries, suppliers and employees on a timely basis.
• Performing detailed analysis of the company’s internal controls, identifying weaknesses and rolling out control remediations.
• Documenting business processes and accounting policies when appropriate (or keeping them up to date) to maintain and strengthen internal controls. Driving automation of routine processes.
• Managing a team of two in Europe. Playing a key role in the overall accounting and finance team, providing guidance and support to address issues as they arise.
• Responding to inquiries from the CFO, Head of FP&A, Head of Finance, HR, Legal and company wide managers regarding financial results, cash foresting, special reporting requests etc.
• Managing ad hoc projects (cross functional process improvements, M&A integration, implementation of new tools…).


Required Experience :

• CPA qualified
• 4-8 years experience. Experience managing in a remote environment.
• A hunger to improve processes and create a best in class Finance and Accounting team.
• A sense of urgency. You are ready to roll up your sleeves, tackle issues, and take the initiative to perform tasks without direction. A strong curiosity to learn new systems. A drive to independently explore and learn, driving your own growth. Flexibility to wear different hats within the team as and when required.
• Exceptional communication skills, taking initiative to provide status updates without prompting.
• A solid understanding of internal control design and operational efficiency. A willingness to dive into processes performed by the wider team to identify improvements.
• Strong systems experience, including MS Excel and Google Sheets.
• Experience with international intercompany transactions, consolidated management reports and financial statements.
• Exceptional organizational, process management and presentation skills, and strong attention to detail.
• Integrity to follow our processes, including ensuring a detailed review of amounts in all reporting, and avoiding short cuts which could potentially increase the risk to the business.
• The ability to work independently to tight month/year-end deadlines, sometimes requiring flexibility.

Nice to have:

• A mix of public and private experience. Big 4 audit experience.
• Netsuite experience is strongly preferred.
• US payroll preparation experience.
• Working understanding of US GAAP and skills to research and document techni