Controllership Accountant Full Time

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Job Description

The Controllership Accountant role is a key role within the accounting and finance organisation and will work closely with the UK&I Head of External Reporting. As part of a dynamic team, you will support with the preparation of year end accounting and audit information for our UK & I legal entities, provide month end close support for our international holding company structure where needed, work with the UK&I Head of External Reporting to provide technical accounting advice across the region, and respond to technical accounting and audit related queries from our external auditors.

Role responsibilities:

• Providing timely and accurate technical accounting support to the Europe & India business, including assisting with the UK & I external audit process, preparing extended trial balances and statutory accounting notes, and responding to auditor queries across 32 audited companies and the AECOM international holding company structure.
• Ensuring UK & I statutory financial statements are accurate, comply with local GAAP and legal regulations, and are filed in accordance with local timescales, including posting journal entries and supporting general ledger accounting for the month end close process.
• Supporting the annual impairment assessment of investments in subsidiaries and assisting in the ongoing drive to reduce complexity and size of the legal entity structure by simplifying entities and liquidating legacy companies where possible.
• Working with the offshore Global Business Services team to drive efficient production of statutory accounts using software, whilst promoting continual improvement in accounts production processes and quality.
• Building strong relationships with internal and external finance colleagues, business partners, advisors, and key business leaders to support, optimise and manage financial structures in place to support the business.
• Supporting the implementation of new UK/US GAAP accounting standards and corporate accounting policies across the Europe and India region in conjunction with the Global Accounting team.
• Participating in special projects including corporate restructurings, significant transactions, bid submissions, and working with Tax, Treasury and legal to ensure compliance and optimisation of tax, treasury, and finance matters.
• Supporting the internal audit process throughout the period to ensure a strong internal control environment that is compliant with public company requirements and AECOM policies.

Qualifications

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent
• Chartered Accountancy Qualification (ACA, ACMA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or similar)
• Good Microsoft Office skills, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Experience in accounting and reporting: specifically technical financial reporting and audit in a public company environment
• Must be pro-active and demonstrate ability to see things through to the end
• Ability to manage the detail but also understand the “bigger picture”
• Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple duties in a fast-paced environment
• Must be motivated, work independently as well as part of a team
• Willingness to work with multiple different colleagues across different geographical regions on a variety of initiatives
• Good technical accounting knowledge and theoretical knowledge in financial reporting

Preferred Skills And Experiences

• Engineering & Construction, project management, contract accounting experience preferred
• Experience of accounts production software / Shared Service environment preferred
• US GAAP and multi-national company experience preferred

Additional Information

This position is best suited to individuals with 3–5 years’ experience in Accounting and Reporting and it requires 2 days/week in presence in our Warrington office.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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