Finance Manager - Group Reporting and Accounting

Jaguar Land Rover; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Jaguar Land Rover as a Finance Manager in Group Reporting and Accounting, pivotal to the financial integrity of this global luxury marque. In this role, you will ensure compliance with financial reporting standards and lead critical projects to enhance operational excellence in financial management.

Benefits

Award-winning training

Inclusive culture and reasonable adjustments

Qualifications

• Experience in finance leadership roles in multinational organizations.
• Strong technical and practical knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Public Limited Company reporting and/or SEC experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the quality, consistency, and compliance of JLR financial accounting and reporting.
• Lead transformation projects for system automation and simplified processes.
• Proactively collaborate with finance and operational teams for reporting insights.

Skills

Accounting expertise

Finance leadership

Regulatory compliance

Education

ACA (ICAEW), ACCA, or ICAS qualification

Job description

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REQ ID: 128550
JOB TITLE: Finance Manager - Group Reporting and Accounting
SALARY: £65,000 - £84,000

POSTING START DATE: 29/05/2025
POSTING END DATE: 12/06/2025
LOCATION: Coventry

In this role, you're part of the driving force behind JLR's success. Helping steer operational excellence across our corporate teams, from governance to talent - you'll be at the epicentre of the business. Your contributions will transform our iconic brands and shape the future of modern luxury. Become part of a global business and create exceptional.

Join JLR's Group Reporting & Accounting (GR&A) team, who are leaders in technical and financial accounting. The team is critical for ensuring the quality, consistency and compliance of JLR's global financial accounting and for driving excellence within the Group's financial reporting process. The team has a key role in understanding and validating the Group's financials, as well as producing the monthly consolidation and quarterly external financial reporting.

This role provides opportunities to drive quality and value add reporting, proactively manage and continually improve all aspects of technical accounting, controls and compliance in external & internal reporting.

WHAT TO EXPECT

You will play a critical role for ensuring the quality, consistency and compliance of JLR financial accounting and reporting associated with various JLR business functions, across the globe. Here's what to expect:

• Developing and leveraging understanding the business to identify key areas of reporting risks and judgements, deliver key projects and statutory reporting requirements
• Lead transformation projects to deliver system automation and simplified processes.
• Proactively collaborating with finance and operational teams to provide reporting insight on new strategic areas, business change or areas of complexity to drive quality and "value add" reporting
• Reviewing methodologies and calculations connected with the most significant accounting areas, often including management estimates and judgements.
• Effectively managing issues with key stakeholders through identification, investigation and resolution of technical accounting matters and through delivery of key projects

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Along with your ambition to achieve the exceptional, there are several skills that you'll need to have to help you succeed here, including:

• Experience in finance leadership roles in multinational, multi-function organisations.
• Strong accounting technical expertise, including IFRS.
• Public Limited Company reporting and / or SEC experience
• Knowledge of working in a control matrix environment
• Strong technical and practical knowledge and experience with International Financial Reporting Standards
• Hold either ACA (ICAEW), ACCA, or ICAS qualification

Creating Modern Luxury requires a modern approach to work. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work. Some roles require more on-site work, but details of this can be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview stage.

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs.

Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you're unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role - but you're interested in where it could take you - we still encourage you to apply. We believe in people's ability to grow and develop within their role - it's what makes living the exceptional with soul possible.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.

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