Group Finance Manager: 9-12 Month FTC

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The main purpose of the Group Finance Manager is to:

• To provide analytical challenge to the month end and year end processes, improving the efficiency of current operations.
• Working closely with regional finance and commercial teams to improve the accuracy of short, medium and long term Group cashflow forecasting.
• Enhance the global financial control and accounting policy framework ensuring it is comprehensive, rigorous, robust and suitable to meet the needs of an international, complex and growing firm.

Requirements
What You'll Do:

• Liaise with commercial finance and local finance managers to prepare a monthly Group cash flow forecast using a consistent approach and set of assumptions.
• Manage the Group's foreign exchange and interest risks.
• Support with the management of the Group hedging position ensuring the Group is efficiently hedged.
• Continuous improvement of the Group's monthly financial reporting process and controls including intercompany.
• Regular review and substantiation of the Group balance sheet and key controls.
• Provide technical accounting expertise and maintain the Group's accounting and financial policies.
• Assist with the preparation of the monthly consolidated management accounts (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow and Key metrics) and information packs.
• Assist with the consolidation and preparation of annual statutory financial statements for Group entities. Provide support to Local Finance teams to ensure that statutory accounts for subsidiary companies are filed on time to a high standard.
• Assist with the planning and execution of the Groups year end audit to ensure it is delivered on time and to budget.
• Produce a suite of FRS102 accounting policies for use by Global finance teams and support local finance teams to implement.
• Ensure the Group financial control environment is robust and all financial reporting requirements across the company are met to a high standard.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen the financial control environment and manage the resulting implementation.
• Work closely with Commercial Finance to ensure processes and controls are appropriately maintained to support commercial activities.
• Liaise with Internal Audit to routinely test and challenge finance processes and controls, reporting significant findings to Group Management.
• Other Group Financial Control activities as required to support the Group Financial Controller.

Who you Are:

• Strong technical accounting expertise of international groups with excellent knowledge of UK GAAP, including group accounting, goodwill, capitalised development costs, business combinations etc.
• Proficient finance system skills.
• Able to build effective professional relationships quickly and work collaboratively.
• Able to work at pace and meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Used to dynamic and evolving organisations

• Experience of Microsoft Dynamics ERP systems and Power BI.
• Experience of executing year end audits for international groups of a similar size, in conjunction with external 'Big 4' auditors.
• Experience of financial reporting and control in a multi-currency, multijurisdictional Group environment.

• Candidates must have a recognised UK accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or international equivalent.
• Owns problems, identifies and works with the right people to solve problems quickly within own remit and wider teams

• Reviews and looks for efficiencies in ways of working.
• Constantly seeks innovative ways to improve the services we offer to our clients.
• Applied thinking/decision making: Is prepared to make decisions and effectively implement those decisions. Translates decisions into effective actions and implements these. Acts decisively and makes difficult decisions even if unpopular.
• Implements plans to ensure objectives are achieved or exceeded; focuses on delivery. Shows and encourages a determination to achieve high standards.

• Judgement: Uses own and wider knowledge and contributes to others to enable and make sound judgements that impact the client and team.
• Anticipates client needs and addresses these. Provides the best possible service to clients, ensuring the client is at the heart of everything we do.

• Know the business: Builds strong relationships, through common goals, individual contribution and support in times of need.
• Considers the regional and global implications of what we do in our own areas of responsibility or team/ department.

• Driving profit/margin improvement: Understands how and where own activities and projects contribute to the financial success of organisation; understands and acts upon the financial factors that influence the business.

• Adapting to change: Operates effectively and with resilience in changing or ambiguous situations, contributes to changing environments, and actively assists those around them to adapt.
• Communication, planning work and influencing: Communicates clearly and concisely using language appropriate to audience.
• Displays sensitivity to develop constructive relationships with others. Plans and organises workload of own and
• others and suggests priorities as necessary

Benefits

• Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer.
• We operate a discretionary global bonus scheme that incentivises, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance.
• Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasise the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
• As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process

Control Risks is committed to a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status"

If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.