Financial Reporting Manager - Group

VACANCY – Financial Reporting Manager – Group//

With over 90 years’ combined experience, NES Fircroft is proud to be the world’s leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining, Automotive and Chemicals sectors worldwide. We provide tailored staffing solutions, sourced from a global talent pool by a dedicated, discipline specific team of consultants. A PE backed business, our success is based up on establishing a culture of excellence throughout the organisation and putting customer satisfaction at the centre of everything we do.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Financial Reporting Manager to support the Group Finance team. 

The role will report into the Head of Internal Reporting and is based in our Altrincham office, with flexible working options available. We are looking for a committed individual to undertake a varied and challenging role.

Monthly Reporting

•    Responsibility over the Group costs entity, which is the hub for global support teams including Group Finance, HR, Commercial, IT, Bids and Tenders, Marketing and Risk

•    Building relationships with directors to improve the quality and flow of information sharing and acting in a business partner capacity

•    Management of Finance Manager, Management Accountant and Assistant Management Accountant and indirect support of Assistant Accountants based in Bangalore and Mumbai

•    Responsibility and oversight of the production of the monthly Group Costs P&L and Balance Sheet

•    Responsibility and oversight of the production of the group wide CAPEX analysis on a monthly basis

•    Responsibility and oversight of the production of variance analysis across Group Costs and Group Central Adjustments 

•    Oversee the process of updating and communicating Group-wide FX rate on a monthly basis 

•    Managing UK VAT Group, including review and approval of quarterly VAT returns, ensuring compliance with MTD

•    Lead the monthly Rolling Forecast process i.e. oversee the issuance of templates, monitor responses and ensure changes are reflected

•    Oversee Group costs purchase ledger, including review and approval of bi-weekly payment run and ad hoc payments

•    Oversight of group intercompany reconciliation process

•    Manage the recharge process for group staff costs and franchise fees

•    Oversee the process of recharging other central costs including IT and insurance costs

•    Ensuring clear and up to date process notes available for all areas of responsibility

Budgets/Forecast

•    Have full responsibility and project mange all aspects of the Budget and 6+6 Forecast delivery for the Group Costs function

•    Drive the production of insightful analysis on budget and forecast KPIs, ensuring key trends and messages are identified

•    Take responsibility for ensuring top level budget and forecast adjustments are processed and managed efficiently

•    Production and review of the Group costs P&L budget, including key analysis e.g. Outturn v Budget

•    Take responsibility for ensuring Group Costs budget balance sheet and cash flow is accurate and that UK VAT payments, capital expenditure and other costs are reflected in line with expected cash outflow

•    Review and analyse Group-wide capital expenditure budget, including production of Outturn v Budget analysis

Year-end

•    Support the audit of the NES Group Limited stand-alone entity, ensuring queries and samples are turned around quickly

•    Production and review of the NES Group Limited company financial statements under FRS 102

•    Oversee the production of Director Emoluments workings and certificates for the Group audit

Analysis and ad-hoc reporting

•    Provide technical support to both regional finance and support staff on whether costs are opex or capex in nature

•    Oversight of DRPP (payment practices and performance reporting) on a bi-annual basis

•    Responsibility and oversight of the PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA) return on an annual basis

•    Support the Financial Reporting Manager on ad-hoc tasks and projects

The Individual

These preferable skills are required: 

Possession of a recognised accounting qualification

Previous experience with managing a team

Strong communication skills and ability to deal with multiple stakeholders of varying levels of seniority

Pro-active with a “can do” attitude to tasks and issues that arise

Excellent Excel skills, ability to deal with large volumes of data and produce high quality analysis

An enthusiastic, well organised and committed individual with the desire to interact at all levels across a global organisation

Attention to detail

Ability to take responsibility for delivering to deadlines as required