Description
- Interpreting new financial reporting requirements, designing the associated external disclosures, owning and ultimately delivering the new disclosure.
- Specifying application guidance and effective data collection mechanisms to collect complex financial information from a large network of reporting sites
- Implementing the necessary control environment to provide assurance over consolidated financial information included in external publications (including analytical review and other appropriate procedures)
- Engage and lead in communication, organisational feedback, training and preparation with regard to accounting changes eg new standards, best practice developments etc
- Engage with the business and other stakeholders such as Risk/Change/Treasury to ensure preparedness to meet new requirements from both a business model and systems perspective.
- Solve unstructured accounting issues ensuring complete solutions (process, disclosure, communication) and stakeholder engagement.
- Helping delivering the external financial statements of the Group within strict deadlines, including preparing the draft financial statements in accordance with reporting requirements and participating in the quarterly close process (analytical reviews etc)
Experience and Qualifications
- Relevant financial reporting experience with a large institution, preferably in a Group capacity
- Fundamental understanding of the external disclosure requirements for a large organisation, preferably a financial institution
- Strong knowledge of IFRSs and awareness of other relevant regulatory and best practice reporting issues (such as FINREP and EDTF)
- Ability to field, analyse and solve unstructured problems/queries and to challenge existing procedures.
- Ability to business partner with subject matter experts in risk and other finance teams on external disclosure requirements.
- Ability to communicate complex financial issues confidently to management and other senior stakeholders both written and verbally
- Ability to design, document and communicate analytical procedures to provide assurance over external financial statements
- Recognised relevant professional financial accounting qualification
Allegis Group Limited and Aston Carter Limited operate Employment Businesses and Agencies and are companies within the Allegis Group Inc. group of companies, the fourth largest staffing company in the world, (collectively referred to as the "Allegis Group"). TEKsystems and Aerotek are divisions of Allegis Group Limited. Applicant data will be treated in accordance with the Allegis Group's Privacy Notice ). By submitting personal data to any company or division within the Allegis Group, the applicant is providing explicit consent to the use of such data by the Allegis Group and to the transfer of such data to and from the Allegis Group companies within the UK, Europe and outside the European Economic Area in connection with the fulfilment of the applicant's voluntary requests, and the fulfilment of other job opportunities that match the applicant's profile, and confirms that they may be contacted about such job opportunities.