Accounting Manager - Belfast- £55,000 - £68,000 (14771)

BelfastCounty Antrim
Written By Mark Downey

Downey Osborne is looking for a Accounting Manager to join a leading business advisory setting. This is a hands-on role where you’ll lead complex accounting work across a wide range of portfolios, with autonomy, variety, and the opportunity to shape junior colleagues’ development.

What’s in it for you?

  • Hybrid working

  • Modern, collaborative, and supportive team culture

  • Bonus

  • Enhance maternity leave

  • Generous annual leave

  • Healthcare coverage

About You

  • ACA or ACCA qualified (or international equivalent)

  • Strong technical accounting skills with ability to work from first principles

  • Around 3 years post-qualification experience

  • Confident preparing and reviewing detailed financial statements and management accounts

  • Experienced supervising, coaching, and developing junior team members

  • Skilled in multiple accounting processes, reconciliations, and reporting

  • Highly professional, adaptable, and effective in a remote environment

  • Strong working knowledge of local and international accounting standards, with awareness of alternative frameworks. (UK GAAP/US GAAP/ IFRS)

About Your Role

Always

  • Lead preparation and review of management accounts and detailed financial statements across multiple portfolios

  • Provide meaningful insight and variance analysis to guide decision-making

  • Ensure accounting compliance, financial controls, and reporting standards are consistently applied

  • Mentor and support junior colleagues, acting as a senior presence across assignments

Often

  • Oversee day-to-day bookkeeping, reconciliations, and client-focused accounting tasks

  • Participate in temporary assignments or secondments as required

  • Contribute to process improvement, technology adoption, and risk management initiatives

  • Maintain budgets, forecasts, and financial models

  • Liaise with internal and external stakeholders as needed

Occasionally

  • Assist with special projects, operational initiatives, or system rollouts

  • Advise on proposals, accounting compliance, or workflow enhancements

  • Support team development and resourcing decisions

Never

  • Lose sight of the story behind the numbers

  • Never challenge a spreadsheet to a staring contest.

Interested?

If this sounds like the job for you, just click on the ‘submit a cv’ button at the top right of the website.

Mark Downey https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-downey-downeyosborne/
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