Group Financial Reporting Manager

About the role

In a key role reporting into the Head of Group Central Finance, you'll have responsibility across the breadth of financial accounting and reporting. Your primary purpose is to ensure that the financial and regulatory reporting of the Group is completed in a timely and accurate manner, including the Group’s consolidated accounts. You'll have responsibility for the effective operation and monitoring of strong financial controls and the promotion of strong balance sheet governance. You'll be the "go to" person for technical accounting advice and recommendations.

Your leadership skills and approach will be key to leading the Group Financial Reporting team and delivering added value to the entire function. You'll drive a people-lead culture of development and high performance, supporting and developing junior colleagues to achieve career goals and objectives. You'll also monitor and audit the quality of the wider team’s work, in particular the Shared Service Centre, and provide feedback where required.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Preparing the statutory accounts and consolidated accounts.
• Liaising with external Auditors and seeing through the year-end audit, being the key point of contact for the audit team.
• Managing relationships with third party advisors and consultants.
• Contributing to key technical accounting discussions and memos with both the Head of Group Central Finance and Finance Director Control & Operations (FD).
• Production of the supporting financial statements for the monthly lenders report.
• Reviewing and challenging accounting entries made by the offshore (India) team with a critical and technical mindset.
• Taking ownership of intercompany process and advising on transfer pricing requirements.
• Balance sheet ownership and reconciliation. Presenting balance sheet reconciliations to the FD on a monthly basis, being able to explain variances and support for the balances.
• Implementation of an internal audit framework for finance and the ownership of direct report in Kochi. Monitoring of all controls and identification of risk areas for focus. Cyclical audit of the controls to ensure compliance across the business.
• Bringing in best practices and using technology to enhance the month-end and year-end closing processes.
• Supporting and coach the Group Financial Reporting Accountant.
• Being a strong No.2 for the Head of Group Central Finance and supporting in key areas impacting Financial Reporting, Controls, Technical Accounting, Consolidations and Tax Compliance.

Skills & experience

• Fully qualified chartered accountant (practice trained) with several years post-qualification experience.
• Solid experience of working in a finance team with good understanding of the reporting cycles.
• Proven experience of preparing or auditing statutory accounts to Group consolidation level under IFRS (including strong knowledge of IFRS and FRS101, especially IFRS 9, IFRS 15 & IFRS 16).
• Experience with tax provision and compliance work would be an advantage, as well as employee related tax knowledge.
• Strong proficiency with MS Excel. Experience with MS Teams, Visio, Outlook would be an advantage.
• A team player with experience of working with an offshore Shared Service Centre would be an advantage.
• Accomplished at working effectively across teams in a matrixed operating model.
• Proven ability to identify opportunities for process improvements and to implement these successfully.
• NetSuite experience preferable but not essential.
• Effective communication skills to both internal and external stakeholders, with capability to engage with stakeholders at different levels
• Ability to multitask, deal with complexity and conflicting priorities at the same time.
• Able to think both strategically and tactically.
• High level of commercial awareness.
• Strong organisation and planning skills.
• Detail oriented, thorough and focused on all aspects of the job to ensure accuracy.
• Ability to proactively plan resource and achieve highly multi-skilled teams with the agility and flexibility to meet multiple customer demands.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary plus annual performance bonus.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.