Finance Manager

Description:

Working closely with the Head of Finance and the Senior Financial Accountant, manage the day-to-day Financial Control function of the Group. The role shall also contribute towards internal and external stakeholder reporting.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Prepare the statutory financial statements under IFRS and local GAAP for the Group and subsidiaries.
• Liaise with the Group external auditors to ensure deliverables are ready for the statutory audit.

• Assist with of Group annual audit process and tax compliance. Liaise with the auditors for timely completion of the Group audits
• Opex and cash forecasting

• Maintain strong financial control process to ensure all balance sheet accounts are fully reconciled each month in Blacklines
• Prepare and review monthly P&L and balance sheet reconciliations and ensure all discrepancies are resolved in a timely basis
• Ensure the monthly accruals and prepayments are completed in a timely basis.
• Provide support in setting up opex budgets for the Group entities
• Provide variance analysis for actual spend vs budget/reforecast for month end reporting and management accounts

• Liaising with the regional external accountants, and auditors of the Group’s subsidiaries
• Prepare the corporation tax packs and liaise with the tax advisors of the Group and the subsidiaries
• Maintain the Group transfer pricing processes and calculations for the intra Group recharges.
• Manage junior members of the Finance team and regularly review their performance against agreed KPI.
• Process journals into the finance system (SUN/Vision) and approve journals raised by other members of your team.
• Prepare the quarterly VAT returns under the PES Method.
• Review Trade debtors and creditors ageing and ensure all items are resolved in a timely basis.
• Oversee the smooth running of the accounts payable and staff expense management systems (Concur).
• Ensure the timely submission of ad hoc returns for the Group and its subsidiaries like the ONS returns.
• Other ad-hoc tasks and projects as required

Requirements:

Essential Skills:

• Good technical knowledge and understanding of accounting standards
• Working knowledge of using Finance systems, ideally Sun Systems
• Microsoft excel including functions such as V/XLookUp, Pivot tables, SUMIF.
• Diligence and attention to detail while managing workload in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent organisation, communication, and interpersonal skills to manage and maintain professional team work ethics
• Qualified with professional accounting qualification e.g ACA, ACCA or equivalent.
• Prior experience of working in a similar function within a fintech or capital markets industry.
• Experience in using Blacklines reconciliation and Concur Invoice & expense management.
• Advanced excel skills include macros and VBA

Desirable Skills:

• Prior experience of working in a similar function within a fintech or capital markets industry.
• Experience in using Blacklines reconciliation and Concur Invoice & expense management.
• Advanced excel skills include macros and VBA