Senior Finance Manager to join a dynamic finance team to lead the statutory accounting team. With responsibility for reviewing monthly reporting, communication of statutory results to key stakeholders, alongside managing the annual external audit, I am looking for someone who has experience managing a team, has strong technical accounting knowledge (including the preparation of consolidated financial statements for large Groups).

Client Details

Global market-leading retail business with a reputation for being at the forefront of innovative technology.

Description

• Key projects:
  • Leading the Group accounts preparation. This will involve project managing a number of key stakeholders (the statutory team, tax, treasury, markets) to ensure results are accurate and delivered on time.
  • Managing the UK statutory accounts including communication of results to the UK Directors.
  • Draft and co-ordinate finance Audit Committee papers.
  • Lead the statutory forecast process.
  • Lead the annual reporting to banks, including working with the treasury team.
• Monthly tasks:
  • Review statutory monthly adjustments for the Group.
  • Support team and review the monthly Statutory Board Pack which is distributed to the CFO and the executive team.
  • Review the Group Cash Flow and assessing these movements.
  • Oversight of the guarantee provision process from concept to ensuring consistency of application across the Group.
• Adhoc tasks:
  • Contribute to accounting, system and compliance finance projects as required.
  • Update and advise on internal accounting policies.
  • Provision of technical accounting advice to finance teams across the Group.

Profile

You will be a qualified accountant (with 4 years post qualification experience) with statutory experience ideally from a practice background, with strong technical accounting knowledge and experience in dealing with global consolidations under IFRS.

• Key Competencies:
  • Excellent project management skills
  • Strong organisation skills and thorough attention to detail
  • Ability to prioritise effectively and manage a number of concurrent deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills and used to communicating financial information to a range of audiences
  • Proactive and able to quickly grasp new issues with a mindset to drive change and improvements
• Desirable:
  • Experience of working in an international Group environment
  • Experience with our financial systems - S4 HANA and OneStream
  • Awareness of corporate tax issues

Job Offer

• Competitive salary
• 27 days holiday plus eight statutory bank holidays
• Pension scheme
• Performance related bonus
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Sport centre
• Free on-site parking
• Fee tea and coffee and daily meals in on-campus café
• Discounts on products