Job Description

This is a crucial technical role in the Group Finance team, requiring a very strong system and consolidation skillset. The role provides significant opportunity for the successful candidate to gain exposure to the financial workings of a listed Group with international operating businesses. The principal purpose of the role is to manage, enhance and maintain the Group’s Consolidation and Management Information Systems.

In the near term, the Group Finance team is implementing a new group financial consolidation system. This role will be heavily involved in the implementation process and is therefore vital in ensuring its success.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Promoting best practice use of these systems. Providing regular support, maintenance/updates, and training to the global user community;
• Responsible for addressing and promptly resolving daily help-desk requests from subsidiaries;
• Delivery of continuous improvement across the entire management reporting process and systems, including working closely with external consultants where applicable;
• Collaborate across key Group functions such as Tax, Treasury, HR and Health & Safety, in order to assist and support the development of dedicated functionalities and reports and Other systems;
• Assist with the main group close process and in the production of the monthly group consolidated management accounts, including setting exchange rates, reviewing, and analyzing intercompany mismatching reports, preparing balance sheet reconciliations and roll forward of equity, reviewing elimination of investments and share capital, managing FX differences, reviewing Group cash flows, posting of ad-hoc journals, acquisition, and disposal accounting adjustments;
• Assist with quarterly forecast group consolidated management accounts, annual budget, and various strategic forecasts;
• Review of output reports from dashboards and fix any issues found;
• Review monthly financial submissions from operating businesses, liaising with their finance teams, to ensure compliance of reported results with Group policy;
• Review the monthly management report to Senior executives;
• Prepare monthly reporting financial packs for the Head Office;
• Develop user friendly financial models to support the forecasting, budgeting and multi-year strategy processes. Support other ad-hoc finance projects and analytical reviews;
• Build working relationships at various levels across the Group and with Divisions to source information or assist in the understanding of financial information;
• Key contributor of the new financial consolidation system testing and implementation, including enhancement and streamlining the monthly reporting process;
• Supporting the review of financial information in the Annual Report and the Half-Yearly results announcements and investor presentations;
• Provision of deliverables for the Annual and Interim external audit.

We offer:

• Generous (non-contractual) bonus scheme;
• Excellent Pension scheme;
• Private Healthcare;
• Life assurance;
• Income Protection cover;
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP);
• Onsite parking;
• Daily lunch;
• Informal (non-contractual) flexible/hybrid working.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience of consolidation systems;
• Part-Qualified or Qualified Accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA);
• Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving mindset, acting with the highest levels of integrity;
• Strong organizational skills, self-motivated and ability to work well under tight timescales;
• An ability to engage and communicate effectively with every level of the organization and stakeholder management;
• Highly numerate;
• Strong Excel skills.
• Experience of large plc environment;
• Experience of financial system administration;
• Experience of IFRS accounting;
• Involved in implementation of a new consolidation system;
• Experience of working within the international manufacturing sector;