Senior Technical Finance Manager

Location This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our London office.

Contract Type Permanent The Opportunity The Group Financial Reporting team is responsible for preparing the Group's half-year and year-end consolidated financial statements, working closely with external auditors to ensure compliance and accuracy. The team also oversees the statutory accounts process for the Group's subsidiary entities. In addition, the team provides technical accounting guidance and support across the business, including the development, maintenance, and communication of Group accounting policies.

This role sits within a small, high-performing team responsible for delivering high-quality financial information to both internal and external stakeholders. The team's remit extends beyond the timely and accurate production of financial reports to ensuring that information received from markets and regions is consistent, meets IFRS requirements, and is collected through efficient and streamlined processes. The successful candidate will play a key role in producing financial reporting that is accurate, insightful, clearly presented, compliant with relevant accounting standards, and easily understood by stakeholders.

The position has a particular focus on technical accounting matters and external financial reporting.

What You Will Be Doing Group year end and half year end reporting

• Preparing / reviewing the most complex areas of the Group's financial statements and disclosures, including share-based payments, business combinations, impairment assessments, leases, financial instruments, provisions, restructuring activities, income taxes.
• Preparing plc’s accounts in accordance with FRS 102 and Companies Act for inclusion in the Group’s Annual Report.
• Contributing to and conducting quality control and consistency reviews of the Group’s Annual Report and Half Yearly Report, preliminary announcement, results presentations and scripts.
• Liaising with the external auditors ensuring successful year end audit and half year review.
• Determining requirements and leading collection of year-end supplementary disclosures information.
• Reviewing working papers prepared by other members of the team.
• Preparing technical areas of financial statements including share-based payments.
• Drafting of accounting papers on key accounting matters and judgements that arise.
• Maintaining and enhancing control activities relating to technical accounting matters, ensuring compliance with IFRS, FRS 102 and Group accounting policies, and supporting the integrity of key accounting judgements and disclosures.

• Review / prepare the UK subsidiary statutory accounts in accordance with FRS 102 and Companies Act.
• Review the overseas subsidiaries’ statutory accounts and reconcile to the submissions into the Group Consolidation system.

• Review / prepare the calculation of the fair value of the Group’s multiple share-based payment arrangements (both equity-settled and cash-settled) in accordance with IFRS 2 and FRS 102 and ensure they are accounted for properly.
• Aid on IFRS
  16 accounting and how to use the Group’s lease management system.
• Review complex accounting transactions and non-recurring items to ensure consistent application of Group accounting policies and accounting standards.
• Review the UK holding companies’ trial balances, monthly submissions and forecasts for accuracy and completeness.

• Provide support to the rest of the Group Finance team with any technical accounting questions on the Group rolling forecast.
• Provide or review the forecasts for certain areas, including share-based payments, leases and amortisation of acquired intangibles.