Financial Reporting Manager

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Basingstoke Healthcare 21 is a sales, marketing, and technical services company. Our purpose is to improve people’s lives by being a leading and value adding player in Life Science. We are a high growth company that aims to be the partner of choice for our global healthcare suppliers; deliver on our promises to our customers across hospitals and the wider community;

and promote ownership within our employees to be the best at everything they do.

We are a values-based company who recognise and reward employees that embrace our values of passion, innovation, transparency, and simplicity. We are respectful of others and do not accept discrimination in any form. We believe it is our differences that are essential in forming our effective and creative teams and it has made us the sustainable business that we are today.

The long-term success of our sustainable business is based on our teamwork, integrity, and the ability of our people to take ownership of their role. It is our responsibility to provide you with an exciting, innovative environment that is respectful, fulfilling and rewarding.

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The Financial Reporting Manager will lead the delivery of accurate, timely and insight-led financial reporting across Healthcare 21 UK Group. The role will own the month-end reporting cycle, management accounts, group reporting submissions, balance-sheet integrity, statutory reporting support and reporting controls.

The Financial Reporting Manager would work closely with the Financial Controller to deliver reliable month-end and Group reporting, while escalating material reporting risks, control issues and audit matters as appropriate. They will strengthen financial controls, improve reporting processes and systems, and translate financial performance into clear actions for non-finance colleagues.

• Own and manage the month-end close timetable, reporting checklist and delivery of monthly management accounts.
• Produce high-quality management accounts, board and stakeholder reporting packs, including meaningful variance analysis against budget, forecast, prior month and prior year.
• Ensure reporting is reconciled to source systems and supported by a clear audit trail.
• Review significant movements, investigate anomalies and present concise commentary, risks and recommended actions.
• Prepare and submit monthly Group/PLC reporting accurately and on time.
• Maintain clear reporting calendars, control checklists and process documentation.

• Own the balance-sheet control framework, ensuring all material accounts are reconciled, reviewed, evidenced and resolved promptly.
• Oversee intercompany accounting, reconciliations and confirmation of balances across Group entities.
• Lead revenue, margin, stock, accrual, prepayment, fixed-asset, VAT and other key financial control reviews.
• Ensure manual journals are complete, appropriately supported, accurately coded and independently reviewed.
• Preparation and submission of the VAT returns and maintenance of the fixed-asset register.

• Assist the financial reporting elements of budgeting, forecasting and reforecasting cycles.
• Partner with senior managers to improve financial understanding, ownership of budgets and decision-making.

• Assist with the year-end audit process, including audit planning, preparation of schedules, coordination of information requests and liaison with external auditors.
• Maintain a strong control environment and contribute to internal-control testing, risk assessment…