Senior Financial Controller

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Financial Times group Full time

The Financial Times Group is committed to delivering high-quality financial information and services to its global audience. To achieve this goal, we are seeking a skilled Senior Financial Controller to join our UK Financial Control team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability of business reporting, compliance with accounting standards, and the safeguarding of the company's business assets. This will involve reviewing balance sheet reconciliations, owning the indirect tax accounting process, and partnering with Commercial Finance and the wider Finance team to provide assurance over risk areas.

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical understanding of UK GAAP/IFRS, excellent Excel skills, and experience of Oracle. They will also possess good interpersonal skills, the ability to work to demanding deadlines, and strong commercial acumen.

As a key member of the UK Financial Control team, the Senior Financial Controller will contribute to a best-in-class financial control function and assist with ad hoc projects as instructed by the UK Financial Controller.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Review balance sheet reconciliations to ensure balances are accurately supported and are in line with accounting standards and FT policies.
  2. Ownership of the indirect tax accounting process for UK-registered legal entities and associated reconciliation processes.
  3. Partnership with Commercial Finance and the wider Finance team to provide assurance over risk areas.
  4. Review and approval of payment batches prepared by the Accounting Services team.
  5. Collaboration with teams across Finance to ensure a clean, supported balance sheet for UK legal entities.
  6. Providing accounting advice under UK GAAP (FRS 101) to the wider Finance team.
  7. Assisting with ad hoc projects as instructed by the UK Financial Controller.


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