Purpose of the role:
This position is a key technical role within the Group Finance team, demanding advanced expertise in financial systems and consolidation. It offers the successful candidate valuable exposure to the financial operations of a FTSE-listed organisation with a global presence. The main objective of the role is to oversee, improve, and maintain the Management Information Systems and the Group’s consolidation processes.
Principal Responsibilities:
- System Administrator of SAP-BPC (Consolidation System) and CXO-Cockpit (Management Information System www.cxo-cockpit.com) for the Company. This includes:
- Management of the system which includes Development, Testing and Deployment, this includes but not limited to:
- User management – creating and deleting users and liaising with IT to resolve access issues in a timely manner.
- Development of the systems – updating/creating data entry templates, reports, validations and workflows.
- Providing training to the global user community.
- Responsible for addressing and promptly resolving daily help-desk requests from subsidiaries.
- Collaborate across key Group functions such as Tax, Treasury, HR, Co-Sec and Health & Safety, in order to assist and support the development of dedicated functionalities and reports in CXO and other systems.
- Review of output reports from the systems and liaise with Group Systems Manager to fix any issues.
- Develop user friendly financial models to support the forecasting, budgeting and multi-year strategy processes.
- Support other ad-hoc finance projects and analytical reviews.
- Financial Consolidation Accountant for the Company. This includes:
- Assist with the main group close process and in the production of the monthly group consolidated management accounts, including setting exchange rates, reviewing, and analysing intercompany mismatching reports, preparing balance sheet reconciliations and roll forward of equity, reviewing elimination of investments and share capital, managing FX differences, reviewing Group cashflows, posting of ad-hoc journals, acquisition, and disposal accounting adjustments.
- Assist with quarterly forecast group consolidated management accounts, annual budget, and various strategic forecasts.
- Review monthly financial submissions from operating businesses, liaising with their finance teams, to ensure compliance of reported results with Group policy.
- Review the monthly management report to Senior executives.
- Prepare monthly reporting financial packs for the Head Office.
- Provision of deliverables for the Annual and Interim external audit.
- Supporting the review of financial information in the Annual Report and the Half-Yearly results announcements and investor presentations.
- Build working relationships at various levels across the Group and with Divisions to source information or assist in the understanding of financial information.