Senior Associate - Financial reporting matters

Senior Associate - Financial reporting matters
Role type: Permanent 
Rank: Level 2 
Reports in to: Finance Manager 
Location:  Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds, Belfast

The opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Associate who will play a key role in supporting the Financial Reporting Matters team on internal and external financial reporting, controlling and acquisition integration related activities.  This involves producing work for senior stakeholders and collaborating widely across different functional teams. The role offers the opportunity to help shape the approach and implementation of best practice across many processes that will help drive efficiencies and operational excellence across Finance.

Your key responsibilities

• Manage the analysis, reporting and control of Other Charges, collaborating closely with Partner Finance and other finance teams to ensure robust and accurate reporting for senior business stakeholders.
• Support financial governance activities for trading subsidiary Boards including reporting and analysis, forecast and planning and investment appraisal analysis.
• Manage the Balance Sheet governance process for specific UK trading subsidiaries ensuring that controls such as regular reconciliations are in place and entries are understood by the relevant owners.
• Support the trading subsidiary statutory audit activities for UK legal entities, working closely with other finance functions and external auditors to deliver an efficient and robust audit process.    
• Support the financial integration of new businesses acquired including co-ordination of activities and interim management of certain acquired business processes during transition period.
• Working closely with the Global community to identify and leverage best practices.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in the FRM team, specifically developing a good working knowledge of all other areas of responsibility in the team to provide support and drive continuous process improvement.

Skills and attributes for success

• Willingness to take responsibility and end-to-end ownership for processes and work collaboratively across finance.
• Confident and be able to build strong relationships, and an ability to challenge mind sets and status quo with senior stakeholders and always maintain resilience.
• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate financial information clearly and succinctly across a wide range of users and levels.
• Proactive, organised and self-sufficient working style with the ability to prioritise and multi-task to meet changing demands.
• Demonstrates curiosity through a continuous learning mindset, and desire to drive continual process improvement.
• Ability to leverage best practice and learnings from regional and global to drive operational excellence across Finance.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Qualified accountant, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent, or actively studying towards such a qualification.
• A strong track record of financial management, analysis and control, ideally in a professional services firm.
• At least 2-5 years of equivalent work experience.
• Strong people skills – can work alongside and gain the trust and respect of a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
• Client focused, enthusiastic and responsive.
• Strong process improvement mindset.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• SAP experience, but training can be provided.
• Financial services experience/expertise.
• Strong academic record.

What we offer
We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with My Reward you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note.
Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy. We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world. Read more about our commitment to diversity & inclusiveness here. We ask because it matters! 
 

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
 

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