Financial Reporting Manager

3 weeks ago


Reading, United Kingdom LHH Recruitment Solutions Full time

Our client based in Reading are seeking a **Financial Reporting Manager** to join them in a permanent position. Based on relevant skills and experience the salary will be between £52-65k + bonus and benefits.

As a Manager in our Financial Reporting ('FR') team you will be responsible for a portfolio of client work reporting directly to the local FR Senior Management Team. You will manage the team on a day to day basis and build and sustain internal and externalclient relationships. You will be responsible for all aspects of service delivery from client take on and fee negotiations to final reporting and client meetings ensuring all assignments are delivered to a high quality and within agreed timescales.

In addition to client facing work and business development activity you will also work to provide support to the Senior Management Team on departmental issues including resourcing, coaching and feedback to more junior members of staff, ensuring compliancewith the stream's policies and procedures and the firm's risk management procedures.

The FR team are a dedicated team responsible for the delivery of financial statements and advisory services to help our clients meet their financial reporting needs. The FR team focus on the delivery of UK financial reporting services to multi-national businesses;providing a high quality, fresh approach which is tailored to each client's individual needs.

By building deep and meaningful relationships with a range of clients, our FR team don't just advise on specific business challenges, they open doors for other teams to provide our firm's wider service offering. To succeed in this agile environment, you'llneed to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and initiative. In return, you'll have the opportunity for progression, and the chance to develop in one of the industry's most exciting and varied roles.

**Responsibilities**:

- Technical and servicing clients_
- Act as a major point of contact within the firm for a portfolio of clients. This includes responding quickly to, as well as anticipating, client requests/needs, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service provided andmaintaining regular contact with clients.
- Conduct rigorous project and financial management on all projects, completing projects within agreed timescales and raising issues with clients in a timely manner.
- Engage with clients directly on technical queries and challenges.
- Responsible for the financial management of, and maximising profitability from, a portfolio of clients.
- Ensure that the firm's risk management and quality control procedures are adhered to at all times.
- Liaison with central departments on risk management, technical and other matters.
- Business Development_
- Engage in networking and building internal and external relationships to identify new business and sales opportunities for new and existing clients.
- Contribute to the preparation of fee quotes for new work, bid documents and bid presentations.
- Identify and recognise business and sales opportunities with new clients, and inform the senior management team as appropriate.
- Support the senior management team with the implementation and communication of any new business strategy for existing clients, target clients and the internal business.
- Resource allocation, training and development_
- Ensure assignments are staffed with the appropriate mix of knowledge and skills required.
- Recruit, retain, develop and motivate our employees, which includes participating in graduate recruitment, ensuring job appraisal documentation is completed within deadlines and ensuring appropriate objectives and development plans are in place for counselees.
- Work as part of management team with other managers within the business group (e.g. resource planning, performance rate meetings and efficiency gains)
- Report in to Senior Manager and Director team and escalate issues for their attention.
- Assist in the development and delivery of training of the FR team.
- Act as a role model for the team.

**Technical experience and professional qualifications**:

- ACA or ACCA qualified or equivalent qualification.
- Significant previous experience in an assistant manager role or experience in a manager role, including delivering statutory accounts preparation or audit services to large businesses.
- Excellent working knowledge of FRS 102 and related financial reporting requirements as well as previous experience preparing statutory accounts, consolidations and cash flows.
- Working knowledge of IFRSs as well as previous experience reconciling IFRS and UK GAAP results.
- Managing and developing staff, i.e. coordinating staff projects, mentoring, counselling, appraising, recruiting etc.
- Ability to prioritise and plan effectively, adopting a logical and methodical approach in order to meet tight deadlines.
- Proven experience in managing a wide portfolio of concurrent projects and project teams in a project management framework.
- Working knowledge of financial products, firm services, issues regarding advice and regulation and compliance, including anti-money laundering.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience with international groups and working with overseas companies (desirable)
- Business development experience - able to contribute to the identification and conversion of opportunities to sell work (desirable)



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