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Murphy is recruiting for a
Record to Report (RTR) Team Leader to work within the
Finance Shared Service Team at
Stone Cross - Wigan ( WA3 3JD)
Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the USA, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation, water, power and natural resources. So that our teams out on projects can run smoothly it is vital that we have robust support functions in place.
We are committed to fostering an engaging and collaborative work environment in which each person’s career is nurtured and developed. We focus on employee development, providing a culture of innovation and positive work-life balance.
A day in the life of a Murphy Record to Report Team Leader
- Managing the performance of accounting activities relating to the maintenance of complete and accurate general ledger and management accounts across all areas of the JMS Group
- Ensuring information is processed within the RTR area in line with Group Timetable and SSC SLAs to ensure a timely month end reporting cycle and the production of complete and accurate management accounts
- Dealing with items of a more complex and sensitive nature and providing sign-off or approval where required for journals and Balance Sheet reconciliations.
- Delivering timely and accurate information to Group Finance, Head of Tax for external and internal reporting
- Recruiting, managing and developing the RTR team, as well as reviewing their work to ensure that
- Act as business facing responsible partner to all Finance and Commercial colleagues demonstrating, articulating, and reporting all business unit / legal entity headlines within Profit/ Loss and or Balance Sheet arena
- Ensure complete transparency of all Profit / Loss and balance sheet open items on a monthly basis, providing executive reporting to Key Stakeholders
- Delivery of accounting activities in a controlled, documented timely manner, supporting all aspects of query management and resolution
- Delivery of Balance Sheet assurance through completed accurate reconciliations in a documented timely manner, supporting all aspects of query management and resolution
- Ensures that accounting ledgers, management accounts, journals and associated supporting documents, schedules, and reports, and analyses are accurately prepared and maintained
- Performs complex reconciliations for the balance sheet and profit and loss account as per the Group’s agreed reconciliation processes and reviews the balance sheets reconciliations produced by the team
- Manages the timely allocation of tasks for the month end process
- Raises Inter-company charges/invoices as required agreeing Intercompany settlements on a monthly basis
- Prepares regular and ad-hoc allocation of costs to business units, functions or group companies ensuring no Stranded costs, all reallocations to be actioned in a timely manner
- Provides routine and special requests for reports or analysis for internal groups, external auditors, end of project/completion audits by customers, affiliated companies and regulatory agencies
- Applies appropriate financial control and governance by adhering to the group accounting manual, policies and control framework, to support successful external audit outcomes.
- Supports the group audit and compliance programme and the ability to lead and deliver RTR Innovation projects
- Provides analysis, data and explanations as requested for the statutory and regulatory financial reporting
- Uses D365 to support the RTR function including all reporting requirements
- Ensures compliance with accounting principles and standards and the SSC’s SLAs and recognises and communicates potential issues/risks on a monthly basis
Still interested, does this sound like you ?
- CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified or equivalent
- Must have strong academic record and experience of working in Finance in a commercial business, ideally in a large organisation of a similar size and structure Required Desirable
- Must have strong RTR experience, preferably in a Shared Services environment Good knowledge of Finance ERP systems
- Proven experience of successfully managing a small team of qualified and part-qualified accountants Construction Industry knowledge or industries with complex contractual arrangements
- Extensive knowledge of General Ledger and processes working knowledge of using Power BI and data warehouses
- Fluency in written and oral English. Exposure to VAT returns, PSA returns and completing corporation tax packs
- Good analytical skills and sound judgment Experience of accounting for joint arrangements/ventures
- Practical working knowledge of Project Accounting along with excellent book- keeping and reconciliation skills.
What’s in it for you?
- 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
- Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
- Above market rate contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
- Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
- Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
- Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
- Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc
About Murphy
Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Gold Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £5.4bn and £23m Invested in environmentally friendly plant in 2024 there really is
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If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call
Lorna Rhodes on
07801 960464 to discuss in more detail.
Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK
