Global Head of External Reporting

Group Head of External Reporting London, UKDesctiption

Reporting to the Deputy Head of FP&A in London, this is an exciting opportunity for an experienced finance professional to lead a niche high calibre 3 person team to drive the Group’s management reporting suite for 3 sets of stakeholders
1) The Board - Monthly Management Results;
2) Private Equity Shareholders – Equity Reporting;
3) Lenders – Lender reporting to debt covenants. Although the group has a good reporting foundation, emphasis of this role is to lead the improved governance and control over reporting, improve the messaging and timeliness of delivery to our stakeholders, and to provide a more co‑herent response to queries by centralising responses to all sets of state holders. Excellent communication skills are required as reviews are held with the c‑suite within the organisation (CEO and Founder, CFO, COO, etc).

The role will collaborate with the Group Head of FP&A, and with colleagues within FP&A (e.g. business partners), across functions (e.g. M&A team) and across the broader business (e.g. regional and country heads and finance leads). An excellent knowledge of financials, accounting, analytics and attention to detail is key.

Produce Monthly Results including:

• Prepare the monthly board results deck, leveraging Office Connect and inputs from various stakeholders (e.g. business partners)
• Own and maintain all proforma results reporting, including obtaining a good understanding of all upcoming acquisitions
• Produce the monthly capital structure and liquidity reporting, leveraging inputs from Group Treasury
• Oversee the production of the monthly segment results and produce the executive summary over the results
• Oversee the Group’s monthly synergy reporting and prepare synergy metrics
• Prepare quarterly lender decks including commentary, and provide answers to questions from lender advisors (e.g. banking groups)
• Manage the Bonus Scorecard for the Group and for input to the Compensation Committee
• Provide timely answers to private equity shareholder and lender queries in well summarised formats
• Key contract for quality of earnings reviews managed by consulting firms
• Run ad hoc reporting and analysis for the Group Head of FP&A relating to c‑suite queries
• Be a team player within FP&A to collectively win as a team
• Lead the FP&A group management report development in Workday:
  Collaborate with the FP&A team to improve the reporting suite in Workday, the group’s new ERP system
• Increasingly leverage the use of Power BI dashboards
• Drive standardisation of reports across various systems leveraging standard hierarchies including account hierarchy, company hierarchies and product line hierarchies

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance
• Good communication and writing skills to support commentary for senior executives
• Strong technical skills and experience working with large data sets
• Knowledge of Workday and Adaptive Planning (group management reporting system) an added advantage
• Attention to details
• Minimum 10 years Post Qualification experience
• Demonstrable Team Player in a Global Team
• Build excellent working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders
• Motivate and empower team members by building their capabilities
• Ensure reporting deliverables are produced and reviewed to a high standard and delivered in a timely manner
• Encourage a healthy working environment for the team

A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business Competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience;
Training and development opportunities A high level of visibility within a large organisation on an upwards trajectory Being part of a high performing team with a strong team culture