Senior Financial Reporting Lead – Financial Services Lancs

Axon Moore Group Ltd; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Axon Moore Group Ltd is recruiting a Senior Financial Reporting Accountant to lead quarterly and annual reporting, governance and controls within a financial services business near Preston, Lancashire. The role emphasizes robust IFRS/GAAP reporting, challenge of numbers and clear stakeholder communication.

You will own the end-to-end reporting process, drive improvements to the control environment, and partner with cross-functional teams to shape the finance function for the future.

Qualifications

• Qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA with significant post-qualification experience in financial services.
• Strong technical knowledge across life insurance valuation and financial reporting.
• Comfortable challenging assumptions and explaining complex financial information to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of quarterly and annual financial reporting, covering the balance sheet, P&L, reserves.
• Own the end-to-end reporting process, ensuring results are accurate, robust, well documented and delivered to agreed deadlines.
• Review reconciliations and movement analysis, providing appropriate challenge and sign-off recommendations.
• Work closely with stakeholders to translate model outputs into meaningful financial results.
• Analyse and explain key movements, assumption changes, experience variances and sensitivities to senior stakeholders.
• Prepare financial commentary, governance papers and disclosures for executive and committee-level forums.
• Own the financial reporting control environment, establishing appropriate standards around validation, review and documentation.
• Lead audit activity and responses to regulatory and internal queries.
• Identify opportunities to improve transparency, strengthen controls and reduce reporting cycle times.
• Develop and deliver a reporting improvement roadmap.
• Act as a subject matter expert across financial reporting, setting best practice and improving the wider reporting framework.
• Lead cross-functional projects and workstreams within a matrix environment, influencing stakeholders without necessarily having direct line management responsibility.

Skills

Financial services experience

Life insurance valuation

Stakeholder communication

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Job description

Axon Moore Group Ltd is recruiting a Senior Financial Reporting Accountant to lead quarterly and annual reporting, governance and controls within a financial services business near Preston, Lancashire. The role emphasizes robust IFRS/GAAP reporting, challenge of numbers and clear stakeholder communication.

You will own the end-to-end reporting process, drive improvements to the control environment, and partner with cross-functional teams to shape the finance function for the future.