Senior Manager, External Reporting & IFRS

Markerstudy Group; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Markerstudy Insurance Group is seeking a Senior Manager External Reporting to join our Group Finance team. Based in Manchester or Peterborough, this hybrid role leads the Group Annual Report and Accounts, subsidiary statements and multi-entity consolidation activities.

You will manage external auditors, craft technical accounting papers, advise on acquisitions and reorganisations, and drive improvements to reporting controls in a regulated financial services environment.

Qualifications

• AC A qualification and post-qualification experience.
• Big Four audit background and ideally industry experience.
• Significant experience in senior external reporting roles, including complex Group consolidations.
• Experience managing the full external audit lifecycle across multiple entities.
• Strong technical knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP.
• Proven ability to prepare complex technical accounting papers and apply standards commercially.
• Experience improving financial reporting controls and leading remediation.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end preparation and delivery of the Group Annual Report and Accounts and subsidiary financial statements under IFRS.
• Lead Group consolidation across a complex multi-entity structure, including intra-group eliminations and disclosures.
• Act as a key point of contact for external auditors and coordinate Group-wide audit activity.
• Prepare and review complex technical accounting papers on key judgements, estimates and transactions.
• Provide expert accounting advice on acquisitions, reorganisations, financing arrangements and other complex transactions.
• Lead improvements to the financial reporting control environment and remediation efforts.
• Support the implementation of new accounting standards and other significant reporting developments.
• Provide technical leadership, challenge and peer review to divisional Finance teams.
• Build relationships with senior leadership and Board-level stakeholders.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Consolidation software

External reporting

Stakeholder management

Education

ACA qualification

Big Four background

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Markerstudy Insurance Group is seeking a Senior Manager External Reporting to join our Group Finance team. Based in Manchester or Peterborough, this hybrid role leads the Group Annual Report and Accounts, subsidiary statements and multi-entity consolidation activities.

You will manage external auditors, craft technical accounting papers, advise on acquisitions and reorganisations, and drive improvements to reporting controls in a regulated financial services environment.