Senior Manager Financial Reporting

Baker Charles; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative FinTech company is on the lookout for a Senior Financial Reporting Manager to join their dynamic team. This pivotal role offers a blend of project-based work and ongoing responsibilities, allowing you to drive enhancements to financial processes while ensuring compliance with IFRS standards. As a central liaison across departments, you'll prepare and review financial statements, support audits, and manage complex accounting issues. This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to exciting projects like IPO readiness while advancing your career in a rapidly growing scale-up environment. If you're an ACA-qualified accountant with a proactive approach to financial challenges, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• ACA-qualified accountant with expertise in external financial reporting.
• Strong background in IFRS, particularly IFRS 2 and IFRS 9.

Responsibilities

• Drive enhancements to processes and controls ensuring compliance with IFRS.
• Prepare and review external financial statements and support audit processes.

Skills

External Financial Reporting

IFRS Standards

Technical Financial Accounting

Tax Knowledge

SPV Structures

Education

ACA Qualification

Job description

Associate Director at Baker Charles - Accounting and Finance Recruiter for Commerce and Industry

Scale up FinTech

Central London (hybrid)

A high growth pre-IPO FinTech business is seeking a Senior Financial Reporting Manager to join their team on a permanent basis. This is a dynamic and highly visible role within the organization, offering a blend of project-based work and ongoing responsibilities, along with an excellent platform for career progression in a fast-paced and innovative environment.

In this role, you will be a pivotal member of the financial reporting function, driving enhancements to processes and controls while ensuring full compliance with IFRS standards. Your key areas of responsibility will include external financial reporting, technical financial accounting, and acting as a central liaison for cross-departmental collaboration with teams such as Commercial Finance, FP&A, and Legal. You will prepare and review external financial statements, support the audit process, and take charge of financial covenant reporting. Additionally, you will develop and implement accounting policies and procedures, with a particular focus on complex accounting issues and new standards.

Beyond your core responsibilities, you will have the opportunity to contribute to a range of exciting projects, such as IPO readiness, managing special purpose vehicles (SPVs), and supporting tax-related matters. Your role will be instrumental in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and quality of financial information while fostering collaboration across departments to deliver insightful and compliant outputs.

This successful candidate will be an ACA-qualified accountant with a strong background in external financial reporting. Expertise in IFRS (ideally IFRS 2 and IFRS 9) is essential, alongside a proactive and solutions-oriented approach to tackling technical accounting challenges. Experience in interpreting accounting standards, regulatory guidelines, and legislation is key, as is the ability to draft technical papers addressing complex financial matters. Additional experience in tax and SPV structures would be advantageous.

Joining at a transformative time for the business, this is an exceptional opportunity to play a key role in the success of a rapidly growing scale-up while advancing your career in the thriving and cutting-edge FinTech industry.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Accounting/Auditing and Finance

Industries

Technology, Information and Media