Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this Senior Financial Accountant role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Sage's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this Senior Financial Accountant role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Sage's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Senior Financial Accountant posting at Sage — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Senior Financial Accountant posting at Sage — free, in seconds.
About the Role
The Senior Financial Accountant, Compliance strengthens Sage’s financial control environment and ensures we meet our global statutory, tax, and regulatory obligations. You’ll provide technical accounting expertise, lead compliance activities across multiple regions, and play a key role in Finance transformation, including our new ERP implementation. This is a role for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, shaping better processes, and acting as a trusted partner to teams across the business.
Responsibilities
- Strengthen financial controls by leading targeted internal audit reviews, assess risk, and translate findings into practical, scalable improvements.
- Provide technical accounting guidance by advising on complex or ambiguous accounting issues, ensuring decisions align with UK GAAP, US GAAP, and evolving regulations.
- Deliver statutory and regulatory reporting by managing statutory audits, coordinate with external auditors, and ensure timely filing of accounts, tax returns, VAT/sales tax, PSA, and Companies House updates.
- Enhance reporting accuracy by reviewing internal and external reports, validate accounting journals postings, and ensure balance sheet reconciliations are complete and accurate.
- Support strategic transactions by contributing to financial due diligence for acquisitions and disposals across international regions.
- Help to maintain global transfer pricing compliance and support documentation, policy updates, and alignment across Sage Group.
- Drive Finance transformation by finding opportunities for ongoing improvement and embed more efficient, technology‑enabled ways of working.
- Support ERP implementation by documenting current processes, map controls, and participate in UAT to ensure compliance and reporting needs are met.
Requirements
- A qualified ACA or ACCA accountant possessing strong technical grounding and confidence working in complex environments.
- Technically strong, with a proven ability to navigate regulations and handle US and UK GAAP reporting, who has preferably gained experience working in a multinational organisation.
- A clear and adaptable communicator, able to translate complex accounting concepts for audiences with varying levels of expertise.
- A collaborative problem‑solver who can work independently or with cross‑functional teams to deliver timely, practical solutions.
- Confident challenging established practices and influencing improvements across a global organisation.
- Advanced in Excel, with the ability to analyse data, identify insights, and support decision‑making.
- Motivated by continuous improvement and eager to contribute to Finance transformation and better ways of working.
Skills
- Excel
- US GAAP reporting
- UK GAAP reporting
- Financial due diligence
- Transfer pricing
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- ACA qualified
- ACCA qualified
Salary/Compensations
- £70,000 - £75,000
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with 2 additional floating personal days.
- Hybrid working up to 2 days per week in office and a home working allowance.
- Life assurance, income protection, and travel insurance.
- Private medical cover and access to the company doctor.
- Tuition scheme and support for pursuing professional qualifications, including access to Sage books and journals.
- Variety of snacks and beverages available in the office.
- Healthy lifestyle reimbursement and anniversary trips.
- Access to Company loans (season ticket loan, rental deposit loan, cycle loan).
About the Company
- Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement.
- Believing that research and education are critical in shaping society, Sara Miller McCune founded Sage in 1965.
- Today, we are controlled by a group of trustees charged with maintaining our independence and mission indefinitely.
- Our guaranteed independence means we’re free to: Do more – supporting an equitable academic future, furthering disciplines that drive social change, and helping social and behavioural science make an impact
- Work together – building lasting relationships, championing diverse perspectives, and co-creating resources to transform teaching and learning
- Think long-term – experimenting, taking risks, and investing in new ideas.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re a Disability Confident Employer (Level 1).
- We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and to sustaining a culture that celebrates diversity, encourages authenticity, and builds a deep sense of belonging.
- We encourage applications from all members of society irrespective of age, disability, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, or belief as crafting value through diversity is what makes us strong.