Financial Reporting Director
2 weeks ago
**Financial Reporting Director**
**Guildford**
We are recruiting for a **Financial Reporting Director**to join BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm, in their financial reporting team. This permanent opportunity is offering an excellent salary, plus a 6% cash allowance which willbe reviewed regularly in line with performance. Alongside this, there is also a generous standard benefits package.
**About the role**:
As a Financial Reporting Director you’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners tohelp businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.
**Key responsibilities include**:
- Has developed a clear area of specialism in outsourcing services with understanding of the local market
- Use knowledge and understanding of the client, business drivers, and technology to help design custom or complex management reports and complex KPI dashboards
- Act as project director on larger clients, and overall responsibility for the job, with Partner retaining relationship responsibilities only
- Serve as a resource for the team, having developed an in-depth knowledge and understanding of finance accounting functions
- Maintains and shares sector knowledge with others to ensure the wider team are up to date with developments.
- Uses their broad financial, accounting, business and industry knowledge to educate clients on how their finance and accounting needs will evolve as their business grows; helps clients identify what is next and persuades the client to value those unperceivedneeds; identifies what needs are critical verse what are not and looks at the business of the client holistically.
- Identify and resolve all compliance issues that may arise
- Can diagnose the relationships and political structures of their clients to appropriately navigate through these complexities; quickly and accurately able to assess people’s different perspectives.
- Reviews and approves compliance work prepared by the team and deals with any issues arising.
- Articulates issues and engages with clients to ensure all exposures and risks are managed and mitigated.
- Identifies circumstances and engages with other streams to resolve accounting and tax issues.
- Use knowledge of finance and accounting functions as well as common best practice to advise clients on their overall financial ecosystem and propose solutions to complex issues
**Commercial responsibilities**:
- Develop, execute and manage the marketing and business development strategy for own and wider portfolios, working with the partner to realise these
- Develops plans and forecasts for the area of the practice they are responsible for; manages the full lifecycle of practice management from budgeting through to collections.
- Contribute to the economic management of the department in matters such as budgeting and monitoring and managing to key metrics
- Ensures that cloud accounting software and add-ons are being used to the maximum effect across their outsourcing portfolio.
- Open to new solutions and ideas to improve the profitability of engagement and actively seeks to implement these
- Educate clients with new ideas mínimalising the perception of buyers risk, differentiating our services, demonstrating our experience, building trust and confidence
- Seek to be a step ahead of the client and anticipate their future needs in a way that will make a significant commercial difference
- Effectively use questions to identify what client’s objectives are, what financial information they value for management/decision making and why. Look for root causes and understand the complexity behind the data
- Regularly review project plans and work schedules to ensure they are meeting the requirements of clients or internal teams. Resolves workflow and capacity issues which are escalated to them.
- Motivate and develop team members’ career and knowledge, ensuring they fully understand their roles and any developments that affect them
- Continuously monitor staff performance, identifying issues, causes for concern and development opportunities, and taking appropriate action when necessary
- Ensure continuing professional development is up to date at all times
- Prepare requisitions for new roles and be responsible for preparation of business plans to support recruitment
**About you**:
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) or equivalent and extensive experience with compilation assignments ideally as signatory
- Excellent UK GAAP and or IFRS knowledge
- Relevant experience of managing a team is essential
- Proven experience in managing a wide portfolio of concurrent projects and project teams in a project management framework
- Full knowledge of compliance and take on procedures
- In depth knowledge of financial reporting and accounting functions
- Excellent understanding of ecosystem of cloud accounting software and ad-ons and can articulate the purpose and value of appropriate systems to clients
- Excellent understanding of the rules and regulations of doing business in the UK
**Additional Information**:
**Location: Guilford**
**Duration: Permanent**
Benefits: 25 day’s holiday, a personal pension scheme with matched employer contributions, life assurance cover and income protection cover. In addition to this, a range of voluntary benefits is on offer including; buy up to ten days’ extra holiday; addon private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance; Bike to Work scheme; discounts off cinemas, dining, and gyms; an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan; childcare vouchers; online health assessment andemployee assistance programme.
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