Financial Controller

4 weeks ago


Reading, United Kingdom Project People Full time

Financial Controller / Management Accountant
Perm Position
Reading/ Hybrid working

MBNL is jointly owned by EE and Three, two of the UK's leading and most innovative mobile operators. Established in 2007 as the industry's first network-sharing joint venture, MBNL's mission is to provide best-in-class mobile infrastructure services to EE and Three for serving their tens of millions of customers in the UK. Working at MBNL means being part of a team where you feel connected, valued, and supported.

The Role:

The role is placed within the MBNL's Finance Department (~35 people), in the Financial Accounting and Reporting Team. The team are responsible for all aspects of financial reporting (management and statutory), financial compliance, accounts receivable and payable functions as well as internal and external audits. MBNL's finance department looks after the statutory MBNL co as well as a number of pass through entities (maintained as separate ETBs for our Shareholders)

You will manage the Shareholder's Unilateral Project financial reporting and the associated audit requirements, internal reviews of financial controls and risks as well as to facilitate and support external audit requests (statutory, internal and ad hoc)

What you will do:

  • Responsible for Producing and Distributing monthly reports consolidating information produced by multiple 3rd party outsourced providers. Ensuring completeness and accuracy and reconciling back to the General Ledger
  • Responsible for facilitating Shareholder's unilateral audits (including early engagement and planning, internal and external (shareholder and 3rd party supplier) communication, coordination of the information request, obtaining and providing explanations to ensure satisfactory completion)
  • Responsible for reviewing and MBNL's financial risks and controls register and policies and procedures and carrying out internal compliance testing
  • Reviewing and where necessary updating / creating necessary financial policies and procedures
  • Interacting with other Finance teams to support explanation of finance results, conveying complex/detailed data transactions to various areas of the business with varying levels of seniority to enable analysis work for any Ad Hoc Unilateral Request
  • Reviewing and prioritising audit requests and obtain/provide the required information in a timely manner
  • Assessing the quality of information provided and ensure it is sufficiently clear and accurate
  • Liaising with relevant stakeholders to ensure the audit is progressing smoothly
  • Create/Update and review existing Unilateral Accounting Policies and ensure they are up to date
  • Provide Ad hoc support to the financial accounting and reporting team as and when needed

What we are looking for:

  • Newly or Recently Qualified Accountant - with a minimum of 2 years Industry\Commercial experience
  • Professional Qualification - ACA, ACCA & CIMA
  • Recent audit experience with the ability to request audit samples
  • Process Management - Ability to spot opportunities to continuously improve and streamline processes.
  • Good understanding of financial policies, procedures and risks and controls
  • Exposure to handling Budgets, Forecasts, variance analysis
  • Strong understanding of auditing principles and practices
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Experience in working with multiple ERP systems and Ability to work on Excel
  • Strong Stakeholder Engagement and Business Partnership experience

Nice to have:

  • Experience of working with IFS 16 (ERP) system
  • Financial Accounting experience or management of large CAPEX/OPEX budgets is ideal but not required

" If interested and to know more about the role, please share you CV with me - Deepthi.Praveen@Projectpeople.com "

Project People is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.



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