Statutory Reporting Manager

TN United Kingdom; Derby; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a Statutory Reporting Manager within a dynamic financial control team. This role offers the chance to prepare statutory financial statements for a prestigious FTSE100 group and its subsidiaries. You'll collaborate with various teams, ensuring compliance with UK listing rules while enhancing your technical expertise. The inclusive culture promotes continuous learning and development, making it an ideal environment for professional growth. Join a forward-thinking company that values diverse perspectives and fosters an atmosphere of respect and appreciation, where your contributions will significantly impact the organization.

Benefits

Employee Support Assistance

Employee Discounts

Flexible Working Arrangements

Continuous Learning Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in subsidiary statutory reporting is essential.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review financial statements for UK subsidiaries.
• Support the interpretation of new accounting standards.
• Act as a contact for external auditors on statutory accounts.

Skills

Statutory Reporting

Financial Accounting

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Process Improvement

Education

Professional Accounting Qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to become a Statutory Reporting Manager within the Group Financial Control team. With the support of the businesses, we ensure all external reporting requirements and deadlines are met to a high standard. This includes inputs to the Group Audit Committee, half-year and full-year press release and the Annual Report. We produce the consolidated financial statements for external reporting purposes at the half year and full year and we work with the businesses to co-ordinate and consolidate quarterly Statutory Reporting requirements.

Reporting directly to the Statutory Reporting Senior Manager, you will be part of the Statutory Reporting Team, responsible for the preparation of the statutory financial statements for a FTSE100 listed group and its non-listed UK subsidiaries, accounting for pensions and share-based payments across the Group and keeping up to date with changes in statutory reporting requirements.

In this role you will gain excellent insight into external reporting requirements, develop your technical knowledge, contribute to and influence process improvement activities and an opportunity to gain direct exposure to senior management.

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and remarkable benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

In this role you will support in the preparation of the Group financial statements in line with UK listing rules, the interim financial statements, analysis required for presentation purposes, as well as preparing finance sections of the Annual Report, including group reserves disclosures and other notes to the financial statements. You will also:

1. Prepare and review the financial statements of specific UK subsidiary statutory accounts and review other specific UK subsidiary statutory accounts ensuring that any new reporting requirements, group accounting policies and accounting standards are correctly reflected in the financial statements.
2. Support on the interpretation and assessment of new technical accounting standards and the disclosure requirements for the financial statements. Communicate and cascade new requirements to the business to ensure the correct information is collected for inclusion in the financial statements.
3. Work with the business, the Governance team and the external auditors to ensure a robust project plan and good quality outputs for the UK subsidiary statutory accounts.
4. Act as a key contact for the external auditors on the subsidiary statutory accounts including liaising with the auditors on technical queries and supporting the business contacts where required.
5. Financial accounting and reporting of the Rolls-Royce pensions schemes. Review IAS 19 assumptions with Aon and align with PwC. Prepare the IAS 19 disclosures for the interim/annual accounts and prepare the journal entries required to align HFM actuals to the IAS 19 valuation. Review the overseas inputs to ensure aligned with Aon's IAS 19 valuation.
6. Responsible for co-ordinating and reviewing the statutory reporting teams forecast submissions.
7. Focus on delivering process improvements and training as required within the team and across the divisions.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These values form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

1. A professionally qualified accountant with subsidiary statutory reporting experience.
2. Able to build effective working relationships with a diverse range of individuals and teams.
3. Committed to service delivery, with a structured approach, able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
4. Strong attention to detail is a must.
5. Passionate about developing yourself and others professionally.
6. Able to distil and simplify complex data and information.
7. Proactive with the ability to prioritise and work under minimal supervision.
8. Highly organised, flexible and resilient.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse team and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

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