Financial Reporting Manager

Salary: £55,000 - £70,000

Location: Greater Manchester

Duration: Permanent

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a pivotal role within the team, who will be responsible to lead the planning for and support the delivery of their regulatory, external and statutory reporting processes, including the glossy Annual Report and Accounts. You will play a crucial role in providing financial information to internal stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accuracy in the Financial Reporting processes.

You will collaborate with Board and Audit Committee members to help understand financial results and support effective decision making, ultimately contributing to building the financial resilience of the Group.

In joining the Financial & Regulatory Reporting team, you will become part of a team of technically skilled and experienced accountants and develop your Financial Reporting skillset in a challenging and dynamic environment.

The successful candidate will gain excellent exposure to a variety of different business areas and the opportunity to gain an understanding of the whole business with regular exposure to senior stakeholders. As Manager you will also help the team develop its current offering to add further value to the business and Group Finance.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for understanding and challenging the reported results of the Group in order to articulate a clear story in all aspects of reporting - both in Audit Committee and Board reporting as well supporting the external messaging in the Group Annual Report & Accounts and press releases.
• Prepare Board, Audit Committee, and other reports of an appropriate standard, taking ownership during the production and review process through to final submission.
• Support the production of the UK GAAP consolidation on a monthly basis working with stakeholders across Finance to ensure it meets all external standards and is produced on time.
• Prepare the subsidiary statutory accounts working closely with teams across Finance and the wider business to deliver timely and accurate financial statements.
• Support the Head of Financial & Regulatory Reporting in continually reviewing and challenging the Financial Reporting processes within your control to identify efficiencies and control improvements.

The successful applicant will be a fully qualified ACA/ ACCA/CIMA Accountant coming from the top4 and/or from a similar role, with experience in financial services (ideally insurance or pensions) and Financial Reporting / statutory reporting.

You will have strong knowledge and experience of control frameworks coupled with a proven record of questioning current practices and recommending/implementing alternative (efficient or correct) solutions. Therefore you must be confident to challenge with a view to making improvements and be able to influence peers and drive through change at this level, preferably having experience with technical stakeholders such as Actuaries.

It is essential the candidates applying for this role have excellent stakeholder management / business partnering skills with the ability to influence and build working relationships; coupled with strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex issues simply and effectively.

You must be able to work well under pressure and manage priorities and have good interpersonal skills with a confident ability to communicate results to senior managers and directors.

You will be able articulate complex or topical subject matter, possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, and have vast experience in developing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, as well as a team player attitude.

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