Description
Role Responsibilities
- Interpreting new financial reporting requirements and designing the associated external disclosures
- Generate and/or review the Annual Report and Accounts and Interim Report
- Specifying effective data collection mechanisms and collecting complex financial information from a large network of reporting sites across IFRS and FINREP reporting processes
- Implementing the necessary control environment to provide assurance over consolidated financial information included in external publications (including analytical review and other appropriate procedures)
- Business partnering with subject matter experts in risk and other finance functions
- Interpreting and communicating complex financial concepts to senior stakeholders
- Delivering the external financial statements of the bank within strict deadlines
- Own and deliver disclosures set out in external financial statements including identifying new disclosure requirements, specifying data collection mechanism, designing analytical review procedures and communicating results to senior stakeholders.
- Understand and execute complex group consolidation concepts including identifying the need for and reviewing the impact of complex consolidation journals, determining the impact of transactions on group processes and understanding the impact of changes in external inputs such as foreign exchange and interest rates.
- Review of ad hoc information, reports, presentations, and provide challenge where necessary.
- Continual review and improvement of businesses processes to ensure both Head Office Finance teams and Finance teams across the Group produce the right information in the required time frames as efficiently as possible.
- Solve unstructured accounting issues ensuring complete solutions (process, disclosure, communication) and stakeholder engagement.
Key Requirements
- 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.