General Ledger - Team Lead

Job Description

With around 12k people and growing, Technicolor Creative Studios (TCS) is the world's largest VFX organisation and continues to be at the forefront of technological and creative innovation. Being responsible for some of the most memorable VFX films and adverts, TCS partners with brands from Apple to Disney to create content that is consumed by millions across the globe.

During a period of unprecedented growth TCS has recently started the process of separating from the wider group to form a separately publicly traded business. This will allow for continued growth and position us to remain at the forefront of the creative industry.
Our four business divisions: TCS is comprised of four business units, each market leading and each serving a different part of the entertainment industry. All four business are seeing considerable growth and there are no signs of this slowing.

MPC – Serves Film and Episodic organisations. Having won several Oscars and other prestigious awards MPC partners with all the world leading film studios and has worked on films including The Lion King, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Top Gun, 1917, The Greatest Showman and Guardian of the Galaxy, to name but a few.

The Mill – Serves advertising organisations and has helped create some of the world's most recognisable brands. With clients including Apple, Amazon, Budweiser and Nike The Mill is the most recognisable name in VFX advertising.

Mikros – Creating market leading animation, Mikros has created iconic shows such as Rug Rats, Alvin and the Chipmunks, SpongeBob and Paw Patrol.

Technicolor Games – Serves AAA game studios and work on asset creation as well as cinematics. Having worked on titles such as Call of Duty, Resident Evil, FIFA and Grand Theft Auto, Technicolor Games is growing incredibly quickly and rapidly moving into other areas of the games' ecosystem.

This role is about providing financial support in producing accurate and timely financial and management information for the four business divisions within Technicolor Creative Studios.

Key Responsibilities:
• Leading, motivating and developing a team
• Pro-actively manage daily operations of the team to ensure sustainable performance and fulfillment of requirements
• Ensuring SLAs and KPIs are met, regular reviewing and reporting of team results
• Ensuring compliance with internal guidelines and procedures developing and maintaining systems, procedures and policies
• Performing general accounting and reporting tasks, including processing journal entries, calculation of accruals, processing of allocations
• Participation in preparing of financial statements in accordance with international financial reporting standards
• Managing of month-end close process, ensuring the books are closed on time and in good quality
• Posting of inventory results, adjusting inventory movements and processing stock-taking results
• Cooperation and communication with external institutions, auditors and internal clients
• Ensuring completeness and correctness of data in accounting / financial system
• Measurement of effectiveness and optimization of accounting processes through KPIs
• Reporting of financial results in relevant systems
• Balance sheet reconciliation - analysis and review of the balance sheet items
• Verifying the correctness and completeness of data, reports and statements along with the analysis of deviations
• Preparing monthly / annualy / quarterly reports and other documents required by the management
• Perform accounting analysis and reporting to support decision-making process
• Maintenance and enhancement of ERP structure, in line with the business needs
• Maintaining fixed assets accounting
• Payroll posting and reconciliation
• Identifying and implementing process improvements
• Ensure all reporting is completed accurately and timely including month end closing, audits and ad hoc requests

Qualifications

Key competences:
• Min 6 years of professional experience in the area of accounting / bookkeeping and excellent knowledge of General Ledger process
• Master's degree in Finance or Accounting
• ACCA, CIMA or Chartered Accountant qualifications would be a big advantage
• Practical knowledge of IFRS and GL process
• Experience with BlackLine or similar tools will be an advantage
• Very good command of spoken and written English
• Good knowledge of accounting systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle etc.)
• Interpret data, assess the results and then present the findings to the relevant stakeholders
• Good knowledge of MS Office
• Methodical approach to work with a strong focus on accuracy, attention to details, consistency and quality
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, can clearly explain and present problems and issues to others and contribute to their resolution
• Excellent communication skills as well as team handling and delegations skills
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, handle different initiatives concurrently, create learning atmosphere among team members and leverage networks within the organization
• Ability to work in a team

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dy100m-52-14-224-197-42 in your application.