All Locations
Bournemouth
Position
Finance
Vacancy Type
Permanent
Finance

The Role

US General Ledger & Reporting Accountant

Location: Hurn

Hours: Full-time 37 hours | Permanent

Draken believes in fair reward and recognition for our employees. As such, we offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including up to 12% matching pension contributions, bonus incentives, discounted PMI, electric car scheme, tech vouchers, wellbeing programmes and much more.

 

About the Role

We’re looking for a technically strong and detail-focused accountant to join our Global Finance team, supporting our US operations.

This is a key role responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our financial records, while contributing to timely and high-quality financial reporting. You’ll work closely with both our UK and US finance teams and play an important part in maintaining strong financial controls and continuous improvement across the function.

You’ll also have the opportunity to support and develop a junior team member based in the US, making this a great step for someone looking to build leadership experience.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain the US general ledger, ensuring all transactions are recorded accurately
  • Review journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
  • Support month-end and year-end close processes
  • Assist in preparing financial statements in line with accounting standards
  • Ensure strong financial controls, accuracy, and compliance across all reporting
  • Support internal and external audits
  • Identify and implement process improvements
  • Supervise and support a junior US-based Staff Accountant
  • Act as a point of contact for accounting queries within the US team

About You

  • A qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
  • Experienced in general ledger accounting and financial reporting
  • Highly detail-oriented with a strong focus on accuracy and compliance
  • Confident working with accounting systems and Excel
  • Comfortable working across international teams
  • Able to manage workload to meet reporting deadlines

You’ll also ideally have:

  • Experience supervising or mentoring others
  • Exposure to audits or working in a multi-entity environment

 

Why Join Draken?

  • Work across international operations
  • Develop your technical accounting expertise
  • Build leadership experience
  • Contribute to ongoing improvements within the finance function

 

Our employee values

Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspective and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all.

At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken team is accountable to ensure that we are all treated fairly and with respect.

We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation, and as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and services spouses and partners who met the criteria in our job specifications.

In line with our Disability Confident Commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process, please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.

About Us

Whether it is adversarial support, electronic attack or customised rotary-wing training, we offer the most accurate and advanced readiness training in the industry. Our vast, differentiated fleet, cutting edge hardware and experienced instructors are engaged to help your mission take off.
 
Being ready is not only a matter of when. But where. We provide services in the UK, US and across the NATO countries. Making sure that our allies can manoeuvre around defeat and prepare to prevail.
 

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