Corporate Reporting Accountant - FTC

The Corporate Reporting team handles crucial financial submissions for News UK and its subsidiaries. We manage the complex consolidation process, oversee technical accounting for USGAAP, and ensure compliance across our group structure. We are a collaborative group dedicated to accuracy, providing specialist technical advice, and driving continuous process improvements through innovation and technology.

• You will be part of the team who report financial submissions for News UK and its subsidiaries using Onestream. Specifically, this will involve preparing balance sheet analytical review and other analysis for submission to US Corporate and processing complex consolidation adjustments as part of the UK sub consolidation team.
• You will assist with the consolidation process for the News UK group and will create positive stakeholder relationships to ensure deadlines are met.
• You will respond to ad hoc reporting queries and tasks as they arise
• You will oversee the technical accounting for USGAAP specific adjustments such as ASC
  606 and ASC
  842 utilising US owned systems to ensure compliance
• Ensure all intercompany balances submitted agree to global balances and inter company transactions are correctly identified and reported
• Ownership and management of all audit requests related to US Group reporting deadlines and processes.
• Implementing mapping for quarterly reporting that minimises manual adjustments required when reconciling to group reporting team and TM1

• You will assist in the preparation of technical and high profile Financial Statements for News UK and its Subsidiaries to agreed timetables.
• Your role will include helping management to fulfil audit queries and building relationships with our audit team.
• Completion of more complex audit questions and supporting the overall stakeholder management of the process to keep audit on track
• Preparation of data for TCFD, SECR and S172 reporting working with the relevant stakeholders to implement these into the financial statements
• Review of dormant accounts prepared by the offshore team

• Your attention to detail will help us research and prepare technical accounting papers under UK/US GAAP.
• You will provide updates and advice to the wider Finance Team in conjunction with your manager.
• You will assist in implementing new accounting standards such as upcoming changes to FRS
  102 (specifically leases)
• You will complete complex reconciliations to assist with our local tax teams reporting requirements such as the return to provision analysis and reconciliations
• Involvement in legal entity rat ionisation project to simplify the group structure and remove compliance tasks

• Support offshore team with the News UK and Wireless bad debt schedules for submission to relevant management.
• Prepare the monthly FX summary report for submission to Shared Costs.
• Support Finance manager with ad hoc tasks for the wider finance function.
• Provide specialist technical advice to the business.
• Complete ad hoc reporting requirements for other related departments such as Tax and Treasury teams.
• Support manager in team development and process improvement.
• Accounting for investments and divestitures.
• Complete month end tasks - Balance sheet netting, Revaluation etc.
• Working closely with the wider team to meet key submission deadlines.
• Proactively look to improve performance, utilising automation and AI technology .
• Working closely with the offshore team to ensure team objectives are met. Provisioning training and guidance to the offshore team as required.

• CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualified
• Financial statements and consolidations
• Highly proficient in accounting systems and Microsoft Excel
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to work independently and use initiative to complete assigned tasks in the most efficient way possible.
• Supervise and assist the offshore team

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