Management Reporting - Vice President | London, UK

Mizuho International; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Mizuho International is seeking a finance management support role in London. The position involves team management, financial reporting, and analysis of expense trends across departments. Strong skills in communication, data analysis, and a good understanding of accounting concepts are essential. This opportunity offers excellent career progression and hybrid work options.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary plus discretionary bonus

Non-contributory pension

27 days' annual leave

Hybrid working arrangements

Wellbeing benefits including Mental Health Allies

Virtual GP services

Qualifications

• Experience in budgeting and forecasting required.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Support Head of Management Reporting in daily activities.
• Manage team members and outsourced resources effectively.
• Assist in production and review of monthly financial reports.
• Analyse expense trends against budget and forecast.

Skills

Communication skills

Data analysis

Detail-oriented

Team player

Proactive attitude

Understanding of accounting concepts

Strong Excel skills

Education

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Who are we?

We are not your typical financial institution. It's our people who make us a cut above. Here, every person is respected because of their differences, not in spite of them.

We pride ourselves on a culture of purpose, passion and compassion. At Mizuho, we provide the stability of an international industry leader with the career trajectory of a growing business. Our steady, strategic growth gives our people at all levels rewarding degrees of responsibility and a richer work experience than a boutique firm or an established giant could offer alone.

Working for Mizuho opens doors not just to a rewarding career with excellent prospects, but to lasting friendships with colleagues from diverse cultures. It's the local expertise of our employees that makes our global network so powerful. By collaborating with colleagues and clients who have your same ambition, you can amplify your sphere of influence and base of knowledge as part of one of the largest-and growing-banks in the world.

What is the opportunity?

MECS Finance Department provides support to the business and fulfils internal and external financial reporting functions. It is responsible for providing monthly and quarterly reports on business performance to management and all areas of the organisation, including head office in Tokyo. It leads the annual business planning process, coordinates the external audit, produces the published accounts, is responsible for tax policy. The Finance Department's Regulatory Reporting Team is responsible for monitoring and reporting regulatory capital and liquidity. It also provides reports to the Bank of England and the Japanese Financial Services Agency (JFSA).

What will you be doing?

• Support Head of Management Reporting in day to day activities for both MHI and MHBK, London branch, including reporting under the CIB umbrella
• Management of team members both UK based and outsourced overseas resources to ensure good team balance and cross coverage.
• Ensure design and maintenance of various Finance systems so they are fit for purpose, be proactive and work with IT functions for any required enhancements and ensure data integrity is maintained at all times.
• Assist in the production and review of monthly reporting, including the Management Committee report and CIB report.
• Understand and manage the monthly expense forecasting and annual business plan process.
• Manage monthly reporting of results to Tokyo Head office, including but not limited to the weekly Forecast, Actual and Budget.
• Manage the team with business partnering through regular performance meetings with Front and Back offices in terms of understanding their expense results and identifying opportunities for savings.
• Analyse expense trends and provide comments on comparison against budget, forecast and prior periods.
• Have a thorough understanding of a multi-departmental entity and cost allocation model.
• Maintain monthly responsibilities task list and ensure adequate coverage across team.
• Any ad hoc requests

What do you need to succeed?

• Good team player, proactive attitude with ability to work on own initiative.
• Good eye for detail with ability to present findings to others clearly.
• Good communication skills with ability to effectively present technical data to non-technical managers across the business.
• Strong data manipulation, analysis and presentation skills.
• Good understanding of accounting concepts
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, in particular Microsoft Excel.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

What Mizuho can offer you

Here at Mizuho, there are fantastic progression opportunities and clear paths to promotion. We will give you ample opportunity to affect change and to help grow our business.

In addition to the great opportunity outlined above we are also currently able to offer:

• Competitive starting salary, plus discretionary bonus
• Non-contributory pension
• 27 days' annual leave
• Core working hours*
• Hybrid working - office and home based*
• Virtual GP
• Wellbeing benefits, including Mental Health Allies and First Aiders

*For applicable roles only

At Mizuho, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like part-time, job-sharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purpose-led culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs.

At Mizuho we are committed to supporting equality, diversity and equality, and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive. We welcome applications from all sections of the community that we operate in and from all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, beliefs, gender identities and disabilities

If you require more information about our equal opportunities policy or wish to discuss any accessibility requirements or reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team - [e-mail] and we will be happy to help.

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