Group Financial Reporting Manager

Sitting in the Group Reporting team you will be responsible for delivering half year and full year external accounts. As Financial Reporting Manager your role will work closely with the external auditors and play a leading role in technical accounting for the group.

Client Details

My client are a well known North West employer with a strong track record of progressing people through their careers. Spanning over a multitude of industries, this multi-faceted business has a high calibre Finance team.

Description

• Complete half year external reporting and full year external reporting for the group
• Ensure statutory compliance with the groups statutory entities
• Provide complete, accurate and timely IFRS and new UK GAAP (FRS 102) accounting expertise and advice. Maintain a strong knowledge base utilising this to evaluate potential impact on the group Accounts and identifying appropriate accounting treatments.
• Provide independent review and challenge around Balance Sheet reporting for the Group on a periodic basis.
• Maintain an ongoing issues log to clear one-off, non-routine, technical accounting issues internally and with the group auditors
• Ensure that appropriate and relevant finance policies and procedures are in place across the business to cover all key revenue, opex and capex cycles and financial systems. Create a central repository for these and ensure that they have clear owners, are up to date and appropriately communicated.

Profile

• ACA/ACCA qualified, ideally Practice trained
• A background in designing, implementing and reviewing financial processes, procedures and controls in large businesses.
• The ability to prioritise efficiently, manage workload and be proactive in seeking improvements to the processes with a core focus on optimisation and delivery.
• Strong IT skills, including Excel, and the ability to learn new IT systems and processes.
• Strong communication skills both written and oral with proven experience in influencing senior stakeholders and ability to summarise complex information into concise and value adding insights.
• Strong SAP knowledge and experience.
• Pro-active, energetic with a desire to develop and improve.

Job Offer

A competitive salary as well as a market leading benefits package and a genuine opportunity to progress your career across the wider Group.