Financial Reporting Manager

About Our Client

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.

• 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.

• 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.

What's on Offer

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