- Professional
- Office in London
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About the Role
We are looking to recruit a Group Reporting Manager within the Group Reporting team, who are based in London. The Group Reporting Manager is a pivotal, high-profile role within the finance function, primarily responsible for ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and regulatory compliance of the company's financial results across all its global entities. This involves leading the complex Group consolidation process, managing intercompany eliminations and multi-currency reporting, and ultimately producing the monthly/quarterly management reports for the Board and the annual statutory financial statements (usually under standards like IFRS). A significant duty is acting as the technical accounting expert for the business, providing guidance on complex accounting treatments and managing the entire external audit process, while continuously driving improvements in financial systems, controls, and reporting efficiency.
Responsibilities:
Month-end close process
- Lead and manage the monthly close process to ensure timely and efficient reporting, including review of divisional TB submissions and cash flows within the consolidation system
- Ensure that all external reporting complies with the group accounting policies, IFR,S and listed reporting requirements
- Ownership of the intercompany reconciliation and equity elimination process
- Collaborating with finance teams to ensure financial reporting requirements are met
- Providing technical accounting support to finance teams on accounting topics
- Reviewing areas of the month-end close process and supporting the Group Reporting Team
External reporting process
- Supporting the year-end and half-year external reporting process
- Preparation and review of financial statement sections, including review of submissions from global finance teams
Other objectives
- Support one off projects e.g. systems (ERP/reporting tools)
- Continuously improving reporting outputs, processes and systems
- Manage and build relationships with internal stakeholders and teams and external auditors
About You
The essentials:
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience in leading a financial reporting function, managing group consolidations, and providing expert technical accounting guidance
- A qualified chartered accountant (e.g. ACA/ACCA)
- Strong knowledge of IFRS
- Skilled in Microsoft Excel
- Strong knowledge of consolidation systems with foreign currencies
- Relevant industry experience an advantage
- Ability to communicate and build relationships with local and global finance teams
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment
At Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
