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Balance Sheet and Capex Reporting Manager, Central Finance

Employer
BT
Location
London, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
Sep 21, 2024
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Job Role
Financial Accountant
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Balance Sheet and Capex Reporting Manager, Central Finance
Job Req ID: 36239
Posting Date: 18 Sep 2024
Function: Finance
Unit: Openreach


Location:

Gracechurch St (4964), London, United Kingdom


Salary:
Competitive plus great benefits
About Openreach
Openreach Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group. We look after the copper wires and fibre cables that connect homes and businesses to phone and broadband. Our customers are the 650+ communications providers who sell phone and broadband services to these households and businesses.
Why Does this Job Matter
- This is an important financial reporting role, reporting directly to the Financial Reporting controller for the Openreach central function.
- You will be accountable for all aspects of financial reporting impacting the Capex and Balance Sheet / Cash (Working Capital) performance of Openreach.
- You'll need to understand risks, assumptions and drivers of business performers,to be able to articulate the underlying Capex and Balance Sheet / Cash (Working Capital) performance of Openreach against the MTP commitments.
- You'll also get a fantastic overview across Openreach and support the wider controller community in successful delivery of the unit result
What I'll be doing - your accountabilities
- Coordinate Openreach month-end Capex/EWC/Cash results reporting and analysis
- Generate, understand and explain the end to end Openreach Capex and Cash stories clearly and concisely. This includes presentation to the CFO.
- Represent Openreach at relevant reviews with BT including WD9 Cash, Balance Sheet and Holistic Filing reviews
- Holding regular Balance Sheet deep dives with business unit finance teams and providing coaching and support on working capital reporting
- Develop a deep understanding and interpretation of Balance Sheet KPI's
- Operate and evidence relevant key controls over financial reporting
- Work closely with auditors to ensure a smooth audit process
- Provide support for accounting policy matters relating to the Balance Sheet e.g. Bad Debt Provision, IFRS16, VAT
Skills and experience expected
- Pragmatic team player, adept at holding others to account through a challenging and supportive leadership style, whilst consistently delivering on their own commitments
- An expert in their field - with experience of and credibility in engaging across the business
- An ability to matrix-manage cross-business teams to complex and multi-phase solutions
- Leader and coach to others both within own team and elsewhere, formulates their operational guidelines or in-depth knowledge and advises on specialist area
- Leads, champions and manages conflicting priorities with ownership of successful delivery of key organisation-wide finance programmes
- Sets agendas, identifies opportunities and promotes the highest standards of best practice and provides insight on finance work area(s) or specialism
- Qualified Accountant.
About Openreach
We employ more than 35,091 people who install, support and maintain the wiring, fibres and connections which link tens of millions of homes and businesses in the UK to our customers' networks.
A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you're a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.

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