Coventry

Head of Financial Reporting

£75,000 – £80,000 p/a + 10% Bonus + Pension

Full-time, Permanent

West Midlands (Hybrid working)

Hamilton Woods Associates are working with an exclusive client based in the West Midlands that are expanding within their broad finance team. The Head of Financial Reporting works across multiple disciplines and functions due to the nature of this multi-faceted business.

The Head of Financial Reporting will lead the Regional Consolidation and Reporting team while managing and coordinating the month and quarter-end closing processes for the International region. In addition, this role will be responsible for the coordination of the monthly and quarterly submissions of the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash flow to Corporate headquarters. This role will be a primary contact point for Corporate, Internal, and External auditors.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Ability to drive positive leadership while supporting the finance team
• Building a positive relationship with the consolidation team that fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing to drive continuous improvement
• Responsible for the review and issuing of the International region cashflow, International region Preliminary Sales Reports and draft International region Actuals Reports
• Responsible for coordinating all International region loads into Onestream and controlling all late International region loads into Onestream.
• Responsible for ongoing peer review of balance sheet reconciliation work being carried out throughout the region.
• Strong focus on analytical review of the reporting packs, ensuring more valuable information is provided to the business in a timely manner.
• Liaise with business to understand their reporting requirements, ensuring relevant information is included in the issued reports.
• Responsible for coordinating all International region quarterly reports to Corporate headquarters.
• Responsible for the SOX controls over the month-end close process.
• Involvement in other ad hoc projects as and when required support the Finance Director.

Skills/Qualifications required:

• A relevant professional accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA)
• Good knowledge of consolidation account reporting, and the month-end close process. US GAAP and SOX knowledge would be an advantage
• Knowledge of Onestream and SAP to identify and resolve queries and review consolidation information would be an advantage
• Excellent people management skills are required to liaise with other finance and non-finance teams in both the International and other regional locations regarding base loads, consolidation requirements etc.
• Experience of continuous improvement to processes
• Excellent customer-focused skills

Technical Accountant – IFRS Specialist

Temporary – Day Rate – £350 Per day – 12 months+

Remote – Midlands Based

Reporting to the Head of Accounting, the Group Technical Accounting Specialist is responsible for ensuring that the Group follows best practices in IFRS and stays abreast of developments in this field.

This Technical assignment plays a vital role in managing the risks and opportunities inherent in complex and dynamic accounting rules. He/she devises practical ways for the Group to comply with these rules and proactively identifies opportunities to improve and simplify working practices in this area.

Key accountabilities – Technical Accountant

• Support the budgeting and forecasting process of the Group.
• Act as key accounting adviser to the Group during the annual external auditing and statutory accounts process.
• Review current technical accounting papers and policies
• Draft new accounting policies under IFRS
• Lead on implementation of IFRS15
• Main point of contact with our external consultants on all issues
• Review and prepare new revenue policies across wholesale agreements, contracts, distribution, promotion, subscriptions, and discounts.
• Identify ways to streamline, simplify or otherwise optimise accounting policies throughout the Group, and more generally contribute towards a culture of continuous improvement.
• Maintain an excellent level of technical accounting expertise, with a particular focus on developments in International Financial Reporting Standards.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and advisers.
• Provide in-house training on accounting matters to other members of the Finance team.
• Perform reviews of Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Support development of business case requests for additional resources and funding
• Support in the recruitment, induction, and training of team members.
• Attend and contribute to management/department meetings where required
• Any other ad hoc work required by the Head of Accounting

Skills & experience – Technical Accountant

• Deep understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards, including, but not limited to IFRS 16, IFRS 9
• Experience of Finance systems
• Advanced Excel user
• Capacity to maintain exceptional attention to detail whilst managing large sets of data and working to tight deadlines
• Confident and influential communicator, with the ability to and build positive relationships at all levels
• The ability to demonstrate resilience and build trust
• Sense of responsibility, integrity and leading by example
• ACA/ACCA Qualification or equivalent