Financial Reporting Manager

Your new companyA market-leading Insurance Group in Manchester. Your new roleAn interim Financial Reporting Manager role, reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting and overseeing a small team. You will be responsible for: Ensuring year-end statutory accounts and VAT returns, including supporting documentation, are prepared and completed to professional standards and to the relevant timetable. Managing the team to support the Head of with all audit requests. Improving processes to reduce wastage and applying appropriate controls materiality to financial processes, including process mapping & documenting. You will lead, manage, motivate, and support a team of 6 individuals. Regularly review and update of financial statutory reporting and controls including, process mapping &maintenance of the risk register. Produce and review Balance Sheet and cashflow summaries and commentary for functional and central costs. Ensure regular Balance Sheet reconciliations, to support and robustly challenge to ensure an appropriate risk based approach. You will communicate and cascade appropriate accounting standards under IFRS & UK GAAP and internal policies for other teams within finance. You will also work alongside the FP&A Manager and Business Partner teams to meet Cost Ownership deliverables in a timely and organised fashion. What you'll need to succeedYou will be a fully qualified accountant with strong financial reporting experience in large companies. This will include the preparation and review of Statutory Accounts and supporting information and dealing with auditors. You will be solution-orientated, flexible and pragmatic and able to work under significant pressure and intensity. You will be a confident people manager with team leadership skills. Highly IT literate, you will have previous experience of large ERP systems, such as Oracle, SAP or Peoplesoft. Available at short notice, you will be happy to commit to an interim role for six months. What you'll get in returnA varied and rewarding role, for a high-calibre business. A generous daily rate and Hybrid flexible working from office and home. What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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