Hybrid Senior Group Reporting Manager

at Nord Anglia Education

• Job title: Senior Group Reporting Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Group Reporting Manager in Nord Anglia Education, leading financial reporting and auditing processes. Collaborating globally with finance teams to ensure compliance and improve financial operations.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary interface with external auditors for management of interim and year end testing procedures and deliverables from a Group perspective.
• Serve as the subject matter expert of IFRS and Statutory Filing requirements.
• Lead the statutory reporting deliverables for the Group
• Support the Technical Accounting Manager in providing accounting policy expertise in relation to complex transactions such as group restructurings, debt restructurings and acquisitions.
• Document accounting treatment of significant contracts or transactions in a professional format and obtain a timely sign-off from the auditors
• Work with the Group Controls Officer to help implement internal controls with respect to the Group’s financial reporting while managing continuous improvements of our internal control environment
• Provision of financial control support to the regional finance teams
• Support the Group Financial Controller and Head of Corporate Finance to ensure that debt compliance reporting is accurate and timely
• Ensure completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the Group’s external and internal financial reporting in accordance with IFRS
• Manage the monthly close process to ensure all other sub-functions within Finance receive the output on a timely basis
• Manage and provide guidance on complex accounting matters within the Group
• Work on making improvements to the intercompany billings and intercompany mismatch processes
• Preparation of consolidation for all statutory level consolidations
• Manage the annual financial statement filing process and related requirements within the various jurisdictions and ensuring timely and accurate filings
• Support the preparation of meeting material for the Audit and Risk Committee in relation to the Group’s Financial Statements.

Requirements

• Degree in finance/accounting or related discipline from a recognised tertiary institution
• Professional accounting qualifications (ACA/ACCA)
• Post-qualified experience in FTSE listed PLCs
• Good technical knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP
• Risk identification, process improvement and internal controls development
• Knowledge of financial systems, including Navision, Hyperion and HFM / OneStream (desired)
• Previous consolidation experience
• Previous working experience in asset-light serviced based industries, high-growth industries and/or start-up firms
• Experience working in a global organisation, across multiple time-zones, and with cross-border transactions
• Solid understanding of cultural and market differences

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Professional development opportunities