Head of Financial Reporting & Accounting

We are currently partnering a very well established and expanding business based on the Surrey/Sussex border to recruit a technical strong Head of Financial Reporting & Accounting. The ideal candidate will be ACA/ACCA Qualified with a number or years PQE. Our client is looking for a best-in-class people manager to help develop and grow the team.

Responsibilities:

• Managing the team in line with the company purpose and values, developing and motivating.
• Oversight of all financial reporting produced by the team, management accounts, statutory and ad-hoc.
• Hands-on approach to accurate and meaningful reporting and analysis, investigate and resolving issues.
• Implementing and maintaining a robust control environment across the function.
• Technical lead for statutory reporting, researching, and implementing new accounting standards and Companies Act changes.
• Ensure all policies and procedures are regularly reviewed and updated.
• Oversee production of month-end close with accurate Management Accounts for the Group, with analysis for reporting.
• Oversight of Income reporting, identifying key messages and providing insightful analysis; including active management of the monitoring of Partner contracts, payments, breaches, and accruals.
• Management of the year-end close, audit of Financial Statements and production of Annual Reports.
• Hands on approach for the Group's statutory financial reporting in line with appropriate accounting standards, Companies Act and other reporting requirements, and management of external audit process.
• Oversight of production of other Regulatory reporting.
• Maintaining a robust control, reporting and analysis environment for the team.

Skills/Qualifications:

• ACCA/ACA qualified accountant with five years PQE.
• Strong applied technical accounting experience.
• Acquisition accounting experience.