Raptor Technologies (www.raptortech.com) is the leading provider of integrated school safety technologies to the education market.  An innovative, dynamic, and fast-growing company, Raptor currently serves nearly 32,000 K-12 schools throughout the United States and maintains the leading market share in the Visitor Management Software segment.  In fact, Raptor currently provides Visitor Management software to more schools than all of Raptor’s competitors combined. 

The company continues to develop and deliver high-impact school safety technologies and now also provides cutting-edge Volunteer and Emergency Management Systems to the K-12 market.  Today, over 90,000 public and private school buildings still manage visitors using paper and pencil, and more than 90% still manage drills and emergencies using paper and pencil.  There is a tremendous opportunity for growth, and more importantly, to help protect children in schools across the country.

This is a management role, overseeing 6 team members and reporting to the Global Controller in the US. 

• Responsible for completion of month end accounting and reconciliation
• Responsible for statutory reporting and regulatory requirements
• Lead Revenue department focused on billing and collections
• Supporting Global Controller on Business and Organizational strategy

Main Responsibilities

Accounting

• Leading the completion of period end accounts including month end, quarter end and year end
• Statutory reporting and consolidation for all UK companies
• Completion of VAT and other regulatory returns
• Group reporting and consolidation to parent company
• Support Revenue team focused on billing and revenue recognition
• Assist Finance with understanding revenue trends and cash forecasting
• Looking at current processes and procedures, recommending and documenting any improvements that can be made
• Review Netsuite systems recommending and documenting any enhancements

Legal and regulatory

• Providing support to tax partners on legal and regulatory

Privacy

• Providing support to the FD on data privacy requirements
• Attending training, listening to guidance & communications and other resources to understand your responsibilities in relation to the processing and protection of Personal Information and comply with the CPOMS Privacy Policy
• Being aware of how to identify risks and the regulatory requirements relating to Personal Information processed and implementing appropriate measures to mitigate and manage them

Other

• Responsible for behaving in a manner that supports the Company values and being a great role model

Policies

• Responsible for complying with all Company rules, policies & procedures

Experience

• ACA / ACCA qualified accountant
• Ideally from a practice background with industry experience
• Big4 or Top 10 trained, candidates for smaller firms possibly considered if they have an outstanding academic background and experience
• Degree level educated - 1 or above preferred
• Experience of relevant financial operating systems essential with Sage 50 and NetSuite experience particularly advantageous
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential

The job holder is required to carry out any other reasonable duties as required by the Finance Director.

Be a part of something special and join our award winning team. We are looking for enthusiastic and passionate people who care about doing things properly and for the right reasons. We are a small family run business with big ideas and a proven track record in producing great, market leading products. With significant growth in recent years within the UK, we are now looking to move in to new markets in North America. Now is an ideal time to join us on our new journey, with all the opportunities that it will bring.