Finance Manager – Corporate Controllership

BOOTS; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee corporate controllership for treasury entities. This pivotal role involves managing complex accounting and reporting for high-value treasury instruments while ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and US GAAP standards. You'll lead a team, build relationships with senior stakeholders, and drive improvements in reporting and controls. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and inclusion, and offers a supportive work environment where your contributions can make a significant impact. If you're looking for a challenging role in a dynamic setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Discretionary annual bonus scheme

Generous employee discounts

Retirement Savings Plan

Holiday entitlement increases with length of service

Discounted gym membership

Cycle to Work scheme

Access to 24/7 counselling and support

Qualifications

• Qualified ACA or ACCA accountant with 5-10 years PQE.
• Experience in accounting for complex treasury instruments and hedging.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day accounting for complex Treasury entities.
• Ensure accurate reporting and control environment during changes.

Skills

Accounting for complex treasury instruments

Technical accounting knowledge (IFRS, US GAAP)

Experience with IT2 treasury management system

Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Strong delivery on deadlines

Treasury SOX experience

Education

Qualified ACA or ACCA accountant

Treasury qualification (e.g. AMCT)

Tools

IT2 treasury management system

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Finance Manager - Corporate Controllership

Contract: 18 Month FTC

Recruitment Partner: Vyoma Gandhi, [e-mail]

About the role

Corporate Accounting is part of the Corporate Controllership department of the Walgreens Boots Alliance Global Controllership function, and is currently responsible for all of the accounting, tax and statutory reporting for approx. 100 Corporate companies within Walgreens Boots Alliance Group. This role is specifically focused on all the Treasury entities (e.g. ABHL, FSL and WBA Inc.) and associated accounting but not limited to this.

This is a crucial role that will manage and lead the team that look after the day-to-day, monthly and annual aspects of the complex Treasury entities to ensure all accounting and reporting is accurate. The controls element of the role requires deep technical expertise in Sarbanes-Oxley and US GAAP in treasury and an outstanding ability to understand and interpret our current and future operations to identify where reporting risks and control gaps may exist.

Treasury operates in a high value, high risk environment which includes WBA's external debt, derivatives and cash. This requires accounting for a variety of complex treasury instruments and hedging arrangements including structural loans, foreign exchange derivatives, bonds, intercompany positions, net investment hedging and short term commercial paper financing.

This role will ensure all aspects are monitored, executed accurately and on a timely manner and acting as a point of escalation. This role will ensure that the reporting and control environment evolves during the transformational change management and identifies opportunities to be the best in class. This role will need to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across a range of departments, a breadth of understanding across our operations and deep technical knowledge in a highly specialised area of expertise.

What you'll need to have

These are the essential skills or experience needed to succeed in this role.

Qualified ACA, ACCA accountant with 5-10 year PQE. Treasury qualification is a benefit (e.g. AMCT).

• Experience in accounting for complex treasury instruments and hedging arrangements
• Experience in using IT2 treasury management system for accounting general ledger
• Good technical accounting experience and knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP
• Experience of modelling or Advance level of skills in Microsoft Excel (e.g. Vlookup, Pivots tables)
• Ability to leverage best practice from experience working with large multinationals and / or the big-4.
• Strong track record of delivery on deadlines and accountabilities
• Extensive treasury SOX experience in a complex multi-national is essential
• Ability to retain a high level view on issues whilst retaining attention to the detail & ensuring the integrity of information produced

It would be great if you also have

These are desirable skills or experience and are not essential, so we would welcome applications from candidates that don't match this additional criteria.

• An individual who can demonstrate that they can achieve and manage.
• Be able to liaise with all levels across the group and integrate well as part of a team. Not afraid to pick up the phone or talk to people direct
• Flexible in approach to working hours, to achieve deadlines

Our benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Generous employee discounts
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Holiday entitlement increases with length of service
• Discounted gym membership
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that your Recruitment Partner will discuss with you. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by WBA and may not be accurate.

Who we are

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) is an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader, with more than 12,500 locations across the U.S., Europe and Latin America through our portfolio of consumer brands: Walgreens, Boots, Duane Reade, No7 Beauty Company and Benavides. We are reimagining local healthcare and wellbeing as part of our purpose - to create more joyful lives through better health.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, with a workplace environment that supports the health and wellbeing of our team members so that everyone feels supported, respected and celebrated for being their authentic selves.

What's next

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

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