Group Financial Controller, Control Risks, GB

The main purpose of the Group Financial Controller is to deliver accurate and timely financial reporting, maintain a robust financial control environment and manage the Group’s audit process.

Financial reporting

• Manage the Group’s financial reporting requirements to provide accurate, timely and relevant reports including:
• Monthly consolidated management accounts (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and key metrics), presentations and associated commentary.
• Annual statutory financial statements.
• Oversee the Group consolidation of global financials, ensuring all intercompany transactions are reconciled and eliminated on a monthly basis.
• Ensure that the Group complies with all statutory and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Ensure that local statutory accounts for subsidiary companies are filed on time to a high standard.
• Manage the Group year-end audit and hold a key relationship with the group’s external auditors.
• Accurate accounting and regular forecasting for all items below trading profit.

Financial Control Environment

• Custodian of the financial control environment ensuring global alignment, effectiveness and continuous improvement.
• Regular review of group balance sheet ensuring all balances are reconciled and substantiated, clear ownership for each account and key handoffs are in place between the local and Group Finance teams.
• Financial management of Group Services cost centres, including business partnering with functional budget holders.
• Monitor and mitigate all financial risks associated with the Group, working closely with Internal Audit and Group Risk.
• Maintain the group’s accounting and financial policies, ensuring global compliance.
• Primary contact for Group technical accounting.

Audit

• Manage all aspects of the year-end audit; planning, interim and execution stages.

• Manage technical workstreams and be the main point of contact for the auditors

Team

• Develop and coach a high performing and collaborative Group Financial Control team which has:

- High levels of technical accounting

- company-wide reputation for delivery

- accuracy and innovation,

- embodies the values and one firm ethos of Control Risks.

• Management of Regional Financial Controllers ensuring timely and accurate delivery of local financial control and production of local financial statements

Other

• Work closely with the Finance Shared Service Centre (Cardiff), Tax, Treasury and the Global Finance Systems teams to ensure all reporting and control responsibilities are achieved.
• Support for the Group Finance Director.
• Liaise with the business including other areas of Corporate Functions and Seerist to support the wider finance team.
• Manage technical workstreams and be the main point of contact for the auditors