Manager, External Financial Reporting

Location of role

Oxford, UK

Finance

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

To work with the finance/accounting team on key specialised Group activities focusing on external reporting, technical accounting and SOX internal controls. A key position within the Finance organisation ensuring external deliverables are met for SEC reporting and UK Statutory accounting compliance, within a rapidly expanding and evolving business for a US-listed organisation.

• Accountable for working with the Director, External Reporting for the Group’s quarterly and annual financial reporting to the SEC, ensuring they are filed on a timely basis by co-ordinating across the various teams both within Finance and across the business to achieve this.
• Responsibility for the consolidated plc accounts filed at Companies House and the subsidiary external financial reporting under IFRS.
• Accountable for working with Director, External Reporting and the Business to understand the impact of new external financial reporting requirements that may arise as the Group expands its operations, using external support as required.
• Accountable for forming the disclosures within all external financial reports ensuring the Group’s activities are correctly and accurately presented in accordance with accounting standards and other appropriate regulations, in keeping with the Immunocore style.

• Responsibility for assessing and coordinating adoption of US GAAP and IFRS accounting updates and new accounting standards that may impact the Group, and ensuring all external financial reports are technically correct.
• Accountable for working with process owners across Finance to review and understand how technical accounting matters (such as new transactions) will impact current processes and work with the wider Finance Team and business to ensure any accounting changes are successfully implemented.
• Supporting the Senior Manager, External Reporting with finance review and data processing for share-based payment expenses, which are managed within an equity administration tool.

• Support the External Reporting team and the third-party SOX internal control partner, as well as Finance, HR, IT and Legal, to ensure testing is completed and any observations or deficiencies are assessed for severity and identify any changes required in internal controls to ensure we maintain the level required for auditor certification, including a high level of understanding of the processes involved and identifying risks that require mitigating controls.
• Working with the wider Finance Team and business, ensure all identified changes in processes or controls are implemented.
• Support the External Reporting team with reviewing the overall internal control framework and identifying risk and control gaps or opportunities where we can simplify.

Essential

• Strong technical accounting experience in both IFRS and US GAAP
• Experience of undertaking reporting to the SEC, including writing SEC-compliant disclosures
• Experience of working in or closely with international companies, ideally with a US presence
• Proven ability to drive change in a fast-moving environment
• Evidence of credibility with management and external stakeholders
• Experience of performing or testing internal controls in a SOX environment
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CPA accounting qualification essential

Desirable

• Experience with Pharma/Biotech
• Experience of UK statutory filings
• Experience in public accounting

• Openness and honesty
• Taking responsibility
• Flexibility
• Team spirit

Professional accounting qualification

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