UKI Finance - Financial Reporting Matters - Senior Associate (UK Wide)

Financial Reporting Matters – Senior Associate

The opportunity

The Financial Reporting Matters Senior Associate role 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 will involve producing work for senior stakeholders and collaborating widely across different functional teams. The role sits within a newly created team and 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

• Responsible for monthly reporting, budgeting and forecasting of Other Charges working with stakeholders to ensure costs are correctly categorised. This includes the provision of detailed information around Total Income and Other Charges by unit and profit pool to enable submission of Allocatable Income to EMEIA Partner Matters.
• Actively help implement and support the Balance Sheet review process for the trading subsidiaries ensuring that controls such as regular reconciliations are in place and entries are understood by the relevant owners.
• Assist with external reporting and survey completion, for example statutory and regulatory reporting
• Ensure SLA’s are implemented between the subsidiaries and the LLP.
• Support the financial integration of new businesses acquired including co-ordination of activities and interim management of certain acquired business processes during transition period e.g. IDC management
• Lead and participate in ad hoc tax and statutory projects and initiatives as required
• Support financial governance activities for trading subsidiary Boards including reporting and analysis, forecast and planning and investment appraisal analysis
• Working closely with the Global community to identify and leverage best practices

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 maintain resilience at all times.
• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate financial information clearly and succinctly across a wide range of users.
• 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.
• 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

• Preferably a part qualified or qualified accountant e.g.CIMA, ACCA, ACA
• Relevant experience in professional services firm (or similar)

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 FlexEY 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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