Group External Reporting Senior Manager

About the role

We are recruiting an experienced Senior Manager to join our team to support our Group External Reporting Director in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our financial statements and energy and carbon reports.

The Group External Reporting team is known as subject matter experts and is highly networked across the business, with our technical expertise sought on all significant initiatives including acquisitions, development of new business areas, changes in accounting standards, and design of new finance systems.

This role offers the chance to work at the heart of the UK's largest multi-disciplinary professional services practice, collaborating with leading accounting specialists. You'll play a central role in the firm's financial reporting and strategic initiatives with a large proportion of project activity and interaction at senior stakeholder level, including the CFO. The role provides an excellent opportunity to develop and demonstrate first-class technical capabilities whilst working at the centre of the UK's largest multi-disciplinary professional services practice, alongside leading accounting specialists.

What your days will look like:

1. Maintain a seamless audit process, managing the relationship with the external audit team, and ensuring timely collection of information from various teams to meet all deadlines.
2. Support evolving reporting developments, including ESG and Pillar II reporting, regulatory, global network, and pension and banking covenant reporting.
3. Ensure the firm's accounting policies remain current and lead responses to emerging financial reporting issues and new standards; ensuring clearly defined and appropriate financial controls.

This role is for you if:

1. Must possess a ACA, ACCA, CIMA Qualification (or an international equivalent).
2. Strong technical accounting expertise, particularly under IFRS.
3. Proven experience in a senior financial reporting role, particularly around an independent finance risk perspective, including guidance and challenge to stakeholders on large change projects and respond to ad hoc queries from the wider business.
4. Proven experience influencing at a senior level, a strong understanding of operational functions, managing cross-functional teams through transformation across financial processes, systems, and controls.
5. Excellent organisational skills with an ability to lead multiple workstreams and counterparties to deliver all projects and reporting to deadlines. You will play a key part in defining financial strategy, designing and defining projects, managing timelines, and delivery.
6. High impact communication and presentation skills, with the ability to work at all levels and to influence wider business direction and decisions.

What you'll receive from us:

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.

We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home, and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.