Group Reporting and Costs Manager

Job Title: Group Reporting and Central Costs Manager

Location: Peterborough (Hybrid working option 2-3 days office based)

Contract: Full time, permanent

Package Includes: Salary starting from £60,000 per annum, plus pension contributions matched up to 10% and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.

Are you an experienced accountant looking to broaden your exposure across group reporting, consolidation and central cost management? Do you enjoy bringing clarity to complex reporting cycles and working with stakeholders across a large group environment? Are you ready for a role that combines technical reporting ownership with the opportunity to support and develop others?

We’re looking for a Group Reporting and Central Cost Manager to join our finance team. This is a broad role combining central cost reporting with group reporting and consolidation, offering exposure across a large group environment. This is a great opportunity for an accountant who wants to broaden their group reporting exposure and develop their people management experience.

• Managing monthly reporting for central costs, including month-end reporting, financial accounting and related analysis.
• Supporting monthly group consolidation activity ensuring results are analysed, reviewed and shared with relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare statutory accounts, support tax computations, manage VAT reporting and coordinate Group tax and statutory returns, including PSA and ONS reporting.
• Working with business units, ABF and business performance teams to follow up on reporting queries, particularly around balance sheet areas.
• Supporting the preparation of group reporting outputs, including consolidated results and related schedules.
• Helping to provide clarity, accountability and effective communication across reporting lines.
• Managing, supporting and developing two team members.
• Supporting hedge accounting activity where required, working with available group support functions.
• Ensuring reporting deadlines are met and working relationships are built across a group environment.
• Supporting compliance with financial control frameworks where relevant to the role.

• Experience in management reporting, month-end reporting and financial accounting.
• Experience in group reporting, consolidation or working within a large group environment.
• Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate input and resolve queries across multiple teams and business units.
• A continuous improvement and control-focused mindset.
• Good communication skills and the confidence to work with stakeholders across finance, business performance and wider group teams.
• The ability to manage reporting deadlines and work effectively in a structured monthly reporting cycle.
• Previous experience of various ERP systems, including different versions of MS Dynamics.
• Experience managing or supporting a team would be beneficial, but we’re also open to someone ready to take that next step.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.