Full job descriptionHead of Group Financial Reporting
Role: Head of Group Financial Reporting
Engagement: 2 Moth contract with potential to extend
Location: UK wide with travel to site when required
Overview
We are supporting a leading Insurance and Financial Services organisation in the search for an experienced Head of Group Financial Reporting to provide leadership during a critical reporting period. The successful candidate will support Half-Year (HY) Reporting, Financial & Regulatory (F&R) reporting activities, and preparation for the Q3 reporting cycle.
This senior contract opportunity requires a highly experienced finance leader with deep technical accounting expertise, strong stakeholder management capabilities, and a proven track record delivering high-quality reporting within a regulated financial services environment.
Key Responsibilities
*Lead Group Financial Reporting activities across Half-Year reporting, Financial & Regulatory reporting requirements, and Q3 preparation.
*Provide technical accounting oversight and guidance on complex accounting and reporting matters.
*Review, challenge and approve key accounting judgements, assumptions and disclosures.
*Ensure the accuracy, quality and timeliness of all regulatory, statutory and management reporting deliverables.
*Partner closely with Finance, Actuarial, Risk and Executive stakeholders to ensure alignment across reporting outputs.
*Manage reporting governance and maintain an effective control environment throughout the reporting cycle.
*Support executive decision-making through the provision of robust financial insight and analysis.
*Drive reporting improvements and contribute to reporting transformation initiatives where required.
*Oversee consolidation processes and support enhancements to reporting architecture and operating models.
Skills & Experience Required
Essential
*Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
*Significant Financial Services experience, ideally within Life Insurance, Pensions or a broader Insurance environment.
*Extensive experience leading statutory, regulatory and management reporting functions.
*Exceptional technical accounting knowledge and understanding of reporting governance frameworks.
*Proven ability to operate at senior leadership level and influence executive stakeholders.
*Strong track record of managing critical reporting cycles and delivering under tight deadlines.
*Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills.
Desirable
*Experience working within reporting change or finance transformation programmes.
*Exposure to consolidation architecture and reporting process optimisation.
*Strong understanding of regulatory reporting obligations within insurance and pensions organisations.
*Experience collaborating with actuarial teams and interpreting actuarial inputs into financial reporting outputs.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.