Balance Sheet Manager (6 month Contact)

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Role Summary

We are seeking a Balance Sheet Manager who will play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and compliance of the organisation’s global balance sheet. This role oversees the reconciliation, validation, and analysis of all balance sheet accounts to maintain a true and fair view of the company’s financial position. The Balance Sheet Manager plays a key part in the month-end and year-end close processes, working closely with Global finance operations, FP&A, treasury, and audit teams to deliver timely and accurate financial reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage all aspects of the global balance sheet across multiple GL accounts, ensuring timely reconciliations, integrity, and full substantiation of balances.
• Review aged items, suspense accounts, and intercompany balances, ensuring they are cleared or resolved promptly.
• Review journal entries, accruals, and adjustments for accuracy and compliance.
• Perform balance sheet variance analysis, explaining movements and highlighting trends or anomalies.
• Maintain a robust control framework over balance sheet accounts, ensuring compliance with internal policies and audit standards.
• Support the preparation of financial statements, ensuring the balance sheet reflects the true financial position.
• Provide technical accounting support to global finance and wider teams.
• Support the month-end close process, along with improving efficiencies to reduce month-end close.
• Assist with group consolidation and intercompany eliminations.
• Support the implementation of audit recommendations and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with internal teams (Tax, Legal, FP&A) and external auditors.
• Ensure accuracy and compliance with UK GAAP/IFRS.

The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may be expected within the scope of the post.

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change aims to equip political leaders and governments to build open, inclusive and prosperous societies in an interconnected world. We do this by developing policies and advising governments.

This is a role in a fast-paced team, working within complex divisions that are highly scrutinised. Therefore, the successful candidate for the role should be able to display the majority of the following:

• ACA/ACCA or International Equivalent
• 5+ years of experience in finance or accounting roles, with a focus on Balance Sheet reconciliations, management accounting and financial analysis.
• Experience working in a global organisation with exposure to multiple currencies and international operations. Experience with group consolidations and multi-entity environments.
• Strong understanding of financial principles, including knowledge of IFRS and UK statutory reporting.
• Proficiency in financial modelling and analysis using Excel and other financial software (preferably Workday).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Proven leadership ability with experience in managing and developing a team.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy in financial reporting and analysis. Open and Progressive – you will believe in the value of teamwork

• Must be able to take ownership and manage their own workflow with minimal input from management, set their own goals and plan how to achieve them – translate into actions and follow through to completion, prioritise against tight deadlines

Closing Date:

2026-01-17