Global Accounting Compliance Systems Accountant
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Global accounting compliance systems accountant supporting Sophos’s financial controls, audits, and compliance systems. Managing global accounting activities, reconciliations, documentation, and finance-system administration.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor global accounting compliance activities, deadlines, risks, and remediation actions, maintaining trackers, control evidence, and management reporting
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end accounting activities, including journals, balance sheet and intercompany reconciliations, variance analysis, and resolution of outstanding items
- Support statutory accounts, tax and VAT/GST requirements, internal and external audits, and preparation of audit-ready schedules and documentation
- Maintain and improve financial controls, identify gaps, and implement sustainable corrective actions with accountable stakeholders
- Provide day-to-day administration and operational support for Salesforce, SAP, Zuora Billing and Revenue, OneStream, Pagero, and related finance systems
- Monitor system interfaces, data integrity, access, workflows, and exceptions, coordinating investigation and resolution across Finance and IT/Systems
- Develop and maintain process, control, system, and user documentation
- Support testing and implementation of new systems, controls, and compliance initiatives
- Partner with Local Controllers, Group Tax, Internal Audit, Group Accounting, and IT/Systems to communicate requirements, resolve issues, and improve efficiency, standardization, and control effectiveness
Requirements:
- A recognized professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CA, or equivalent, with active membership and continuing professional development maintained where applicable
- A bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or equivalent relevant experience
- Three or more years of recent experience in accounting compliance, financial control, audit, systems accounting, or finance systems support
- Strong technical knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting, internal controls, audit requirements, IFRS, and local GAAP
- Experience preparing or reviewing journals, balance sheet and intercompany reconciliations, financial statements, statutory accounts, technical accounting papers, and audit workpapers
- Experience monitoring compliance activities, maintaining control evidence, coordinating audit requests, and tracking remediation actions
- Practical experience with ERP, EPM, billing, revenue, reporting, or compliance platforms; exposure to SAP, OneStream, Zuora, Pagero, or Salesforce is particularly relevant
- Experience supporting monthly financial close processes and working with large data sets
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Ability to work with stakeholders across functions, cultures, and time zones
- Strong organizational and time management skills, with a proactive, self-starting approach and the ability to manage multiple priorities
- High standards of professional ethics, integrity, confidentiality, and accountability
- Ability and willingness to work with substantial coverage of UK business hours
- Preferred: experience in global accounting compliance, controllership, statutory reporting, or financial control
- Preferred: hands-on experience with OneStream or another EPM/consolidation platform
- Preferred: experience with SAP, Zuora Billing and Revenue, Pagero, Salesforce, Workiva, Power BI, or related finance technologies
- Preferred: experience in a multinational software or technology company
- Preferred: knowledge of statutory reporting, billing, revenue recognition, taxes, and VAT/GST compliance
- Preferred: experience supporting SOX or comparable control environments
- Preferred: experience with finance system implementations, upgrades, integrations, automation, or transformation initiatives
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