Senior Manager - Financial Control - Year-End - Banking

Rothstein Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

International Bank in Greater London is seeking a Senior Manager for Financial Control specializing in year-end reporting and statutory disclosures. The role focuses on coordinating year-end processes, ensuring compliance, and supporting external audit activities across finance, risk, IT and business functions.

You will review financial results, enhance control frameworks, and lead data-related reporting initiatives in a collaborative environment with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with IFRS background.
• Experience in external or internal audit and year-end reporting.
• Knowledge of financial control, tax and cost control.
• Understanding of data lineage.
• Experience in finance change, transformation or data enrichment projects.
• Attention to detail and numeracy.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and drive new processes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate year-end statutory reporting deliverables and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Review annual report disclosures, statements, policies and narrative sections.
• Ensure consistency between reported financials, management commentary and analyses.
• Act as senior contact for external auditors and address queries.
• Review financial results, reconciliations and supporting schedules for accuracy.
• Support maintenance of the financial control framework and audit trails.
• Lead involvement with the Finance data lead in data warehouse initiatives.
• Participate in testing activities (UAT, regression) and post-implementation validation.
• Identify data quality issues and drive remediation and control improvements.

Skills

Strong communication

Auditing experience

Analytical thinking

Autonomy & initiative

Interpersonal skills

Education

ACA or ACCA qualification with IFRS experience

Job description

Senior Manager - Financial Control - Year-End - Banking

Excellent opportunity opens to join an International Bank as their new Financial Control Senior Manager. You will be a key part in ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting, as well as supporting audit and control processes for the bank. This will be someone with strong experience in banking environments, with a focus on year-end statutory reporting, financial reporting, and audit.

Annual Report and Statutory Reporting

• Support the preparation, review and coordination of year-end statutory reporting deliverables, ensuring compliance with applicable accounting, regulatory and corporate reporting requirements.
• Perform comprehensive qualitative and quantitative review of annual report disclosures, including primary financial statements, notes to the accounts, accounting policies, strategic report and other narrative disclosures.
• Ensure consistency and alignment between reported financial information, management commentary and supporting analysis.
• Coordinate inputs from multiple stakeholders and challenge content where necessary to improve clarity, accuracy and quality of external reporting.
• Act as a senior point of contact for the external auditors throughout the year-end audit process and address audit queries in a timely and professional manner, liaising with stakeholders across Finance, Risk, IT and business functions as necessary.

Financial Reporting and Control

• Review and challenge financial results, balance sheet reconciliations, journals and supporting schedules to ensure completeness, accuracy and compliance with accounting policies.
• Perform detailed analytical review of financial performance, identifying unusual trends, significant variances and potential reporting issues.
• Support the maintenance and enhancement of the financial control framework, ensuring robust governance, documentation and audit trails.

Finance Data Project

• Support the Finance data lead/SME in the implementation and enhancement of the enterprise data warehouse and associated reporting solutions.
• Review data models, reporting logic and calculations to ensure financial information is complete, accurate and fit for purpose.
• Lead finance participation in testing activities, including User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing and post-implementation validation.
• Investigate data quality issues, root causes and control weaknesses, ensuring appropriate remediation actions are implemented.
• Champion a robust control framework through documentation standards and reconciliation controls across finance reporting processes.
• Take the initiative to investigate and propose and implement changes in reporting and control processes to ensure continuous improvement and efficiency.

Qualifications and Experience

• Qualified Accountant - ideally ACA or ACCA with strong background in IFRS
• Strong controls background with experience in either external or internal audit, with experience in year end reporting
• Good knowledge of various finance activities including financial control, tax & cost control.
• Strong knowledge of data lineage
• Experience in contributing to finance change / transformation or data enrichment project.
• Good data and numeracy skills with attention to detail with ability to maintain accuracy at all times
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, ability to communicate technical /complex matters to colleagues across all levels of the organisation
• The ability to work autonomously and take initiative in particular building / developing new processes and controls as the Bank's systems or business change and evolve
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to ensure efficiency whilst balancing priorities

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