Group Accountant and Treasury Manager
About Gapstars
Gapstars is a Netherlands-based software development services provider that builds remote, agile teams in Sri Lanka and Portugal for innovative tech companies. Today, we are home to 300+ TechStars and innovative minds, turning scalable software into performance products that shape the future. Our partners are highly ambitious tech companies that are looking to conquer their respective markets.
Role and Responsibilities
Consolidation and Group Reporting
Own the end-to-end group consolidation process, producing accurate and timely consolidated management accounts and group reporting packs.
Lead the delivery of monthly group reporting, driving process improvements to achieve a 5-working-day close (from the current 10 days).
Ensure consistency and accuracy of reporting across all international subsidiaries, including elimination of intercompany transactions and balances.
Develop and maintain consolidation schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation to a high standard.
Work closely with Planful, our financial consolidation tool, to systemize the consolidation of group accounts and reduce reliance on manual processes.
Seek opportunities to automate the ingestion of data from various accounting sources (including NetSuite and local ERPs) into Planful, streamlining the end-to-end consolidation process.
Partner with entity-level finance teams across the UK, China, US, and Sri Lanka to ensure alignment on reporting standards, chart of accounts, and close processes.
Take ownership of the group accounting data architecture, ensuring chart of accounts structures and data capture across all entities enable seamless consolidation – from consistent identification and tagging of intercompany transactions and balances, through to accurate evaluation of Provision for Unrealized Profit across group inventory holdings.
Ensure the consolidation of finance information is not at the expense of granularity and richness of analytical dimensions, enabling finance business partners to drill down into the data and explain the drivers of financial performance from consolidated rather than entity-level information.
Prepare board-level group reporting packs with clear, decision-useful commentary on performance, variances, and key trends.
Statutory Reporting and Compliance
Oversee statutory reporting and compliance by local accounting teams for all group entities, ensuring all filings are accurate, timely, and in accordance with applicable accounting standards (UK GAAP/IFRS).
Act as the principal contact for the annual audit across the group, managing the relationship with external auditors and coordinating all audit deliverables.
Drive a step-change in audit readiness, with the objective of reducing the year-end audit timeline from 6 months to 3 months post year-end.
Maintain robust audit trails, working papers, and supporting schedules for all statutory accounts.
Stay abreast of changes in accounting standards and regulatory requirements, assessing their impact on the group.
Tax Coordination
Act as the internal lead for tax matters, liaising with external tax advisors who prepare corporation tax returns and RDEC/Patent Box claims.
Ensure the efficient capture, organization, and timely provision of all relevant financial data, schedules, and supporting information to the external tax firm.
Co-ordinate the tax compliance calendar across all group entities, ensuring deadlines are tracked and met by the local accounting functions.
Maintain accurate tax provision calculations for group reporting purposes.
Support transfer pricing documentation and compliance in coordination with external advisors.
Treasury and Balance Sheet Integrity
Lead the preparation and consolidation of both the 13-week direct cash flow forecast, and the 18-month integrated indirect cash flow forecast.
Monitor group-wide liquidity and identify optimization opportunities across the international group.
Maintain rigorous balance sheet integrity, including ownership of key reconciliations, provisions, accruals, and prepayments across all entities.
Oversee intercompany balances and recharging activity, ensuring alignment with group frameworks, timely settlement, and robust governance over balance sheet exposures.
Manage intercompany funding and loan arrangements, ensuring accurate tracking, accounting, and alignment with local and group requirements.
Support the administration and refinancing of the Group’s debt facilities, including covenant compliance and lender reporting.
Develop and maintain treasury policies, processes, and controls that support scaling and governance.
Working Capital Reporting
Own group-wide working capital reporting, including inventory, receivables, and payables performance, with clear insights into key drivers.
Collaborate with Commercial and Operations finance business partners to identify and drive working capital improvement initiatives.
Develop balance sheet forecasting processes, tracking key line items such as inventory, accruals, capex, intercompany balances, and provisions.
Business Partnering and Continuous Improvement
Build strong relationships across divisions to promote financial discipline, reporting quality, and data integrity.
Drive process improvement and simplification across all areas of responsibility, supporting Brompton’s ambitions to scale efficiently.
Maintain close alignment with FP&A and finance business partners to ensure planning and reporting is joined-up and decision-useful.
Champion automation and systems improvements to support faster, more accurate reporting cycles.
Identify and implement opportunities to standardize accounting processes across all group entities, reducing variability and manual effort in the month-end cycle.
Drive the productionisation of month-end accounting data, establishing repeatable and automated workflows that deliver consistent, audit-ready outputs on an accelerated timetable.
