VP, Financial Reporting

Role purpose

Financial reporting and close

• Manage accounting, reporting, and reconciliation requirements for the IFRS 9 project.
• Manage month-end close adjustments, reconciliations, audit trails, schedules, data, exception resolution, and trackers.
• Ensure Group accounting under IFRS and related standards, including country-specific requirements and non-compliant entities.
• Reconcile derivatives, term borrowings, Stage 3, expected credit loss, write-off and recovery, and impairment figures.
• Analyze variances and comment on balance sheet and profit-and-loss figures and ratios for monthly reporting packs.

Statements, audit, and technical accounting

• Prepare financial-statement disclosures on cash flows, derivatives, term borrowings, IFRS 9, provisions, and impairment.
• Support quarterly and annual financial statements and review accounting policies and statements against industry practices.
• Respond to statutory and internal auditor queries and regularize audit adjustments for the Group, subsidiaries, and branches.
• Advise on complex accounting issues and new standards; monitor technical developments and provide ad hoc accounting advice.

Projects and stakeholder support

• Support model development and validation, including data extraction and preprocessing, modular development, user acceptance testing, and performance assessment.
• Support reporting projects and new product requirements, and align financial reporting with external standards and internal policies.
• Support overseas branches and subsidiaries with accounting and IFRS requirements and auditor queries.
• Contribute to the Finance Systems working group and communicate Group management reporting requirements.

Qualifications and experience

• ACA or CFA is preferred, or 5–8 years of Financial Reporting function experience.
• Experience in accounting and reporting under IFRS-related areas, including audit and reporting.
• Experience working with a Big Four audit firm.
• Experience developing financial and management-information reporting and automating processes.

Additional capabilities

• Ability to work effectively across organizational levels and take a hands-on approach to problem solving.
• Ability to understand project plans, articulate roles, goals, and timelines, and adhere to plans.
• Strong relationship-management skills for close work with internal stakeholders.

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