Location – London
Our client is a growing international investment banking business, headquartered in London and with offices in New York and Dublin. A Group Financial Controller (‘Group FC’) is required to support the CFO, Board and shareholders through provision of high quality, accurate financial information for management and reporting of the business and to support strategic initiatives.
The role
The Group FC is responsible for managing a small team producing financial reporting for the UK legal entities and the group consolidation under IFRS and for leading a robust, timely and collaborative close process across the global finance function.
The postholder will be a key member of the senior finance management team, promoting excellence and a culture of continuous improvement across the global finance team.
Key responsibilities
- Manage the production of monthly management accounts for the main UK trading entity, listed UK parent company and consolidated group under IFRS, ensuring high-quality output on a timely basis
- Manage the production of group full year and interim results announcements and statutory financial statements for the UK entities and consolidated group
- Provide technical accounting support across the group, including ensuring that group accounting policies are kept up to date; applied correctly and consistently across the group, and documented in the group accounting manual
- Ensure that appropriate financial controls are in place for the group to enhance the completeness and accuracy of financial statements
- Ensure all financial reporting and control processes, including the month end close process, are best practice and standardised across the group; identify opportunities to automate and enhance processes, workflow and systems and implement these
- Manage, coach and develop a small team of financial accountants
- Liaise with external and internal auditors and the Group’s Audit Committee
- Support the CFO with strategic growth initiatives
- Work closely and build strong relationships with the business and across finance including with the FP&A team, treasury and operational finance team, tax manager and regional finance teams.
Skills and attributes
- ACA qualified, ideally with 7-10 years post qualified experience
- Financial services experience, ideally in a listed company
- Strong technical accounting skills and experience of preparing consolidated financial statements under IFRS
- Enthusiastic, confident and assertive with the ability to build and maintain strong and effective relationships with all levels of management and staff
- Strong attention to detail
- Hands-on, proactive with the ability to effectively prioritise multiple tasks
- Strong experience of identifying and implementing process improvements, including workflow and technology enhancements.
- Experience of developing teams
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Excellent excel skills essential.
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