Our client is seeking a Manager, Financial Control to join their Financial Performance & Control team in Jersey. This is a permanent, full-time position (37.5 hours per week). In this role, you will manage financial processes and ensure compliance with regulations, supporting accurate financial reporting and decision-making.
JOB DUTIES:
- Manage the delivery of month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial outputs.
- Manage the preparation of statutory financial statements and supporting disclosures.
- Act as the primary day-to-day contact for external audit activity, coordinating requests and ensuring timely delivery of audit requests.
- Maintain ownership of balance sheet governance, ensuring reconciliations are completed, reviewed, and appropriately evidenced.
- Ensure adherence to accounting standards, firm accounting policies, and technical accounting requirements.
- Support regulatory reporting obligations through accurate and timely submissions.
- Maintain a strong financial control framework, ensuring appropriate governance, documentation, and control evidence.
- Support the delivery of accurate, timely, and insightful management reporting for Finance leadership and senior stakeholders.
- Prepare and review analysis of financial performance, key balance sheet movements, and other finance metrics to explain business performance and support decision-making.
- Work with Finance Business Partners to ensure that management reporting, statutory reporting, and business performance insight are aligned and based on consistent financial data.
- Provide Financial Control oversight across Finance Operations, including outsourced accounts payable and accounts receivable processes.
- Build effective working relationships across Finance and the wider business.
- Identify and implement opportunities to strengthen financial controls, improve efficiency, and enhance reporting quality.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field.
- Fully qualified accountant with a recognised UK professional designation.
- Minimum of five years of experience in finance, with post qualification experience in financial control, reporting, management reporting, or a related finance role.
- Strong technical accounting and financial reporting knowledge.
- Experience delivering month-end and year-end close processes.
- Experience preparing or reviewing statutory financial statements.
- Experience coordinating audits and working with external auditors.
- Strong balance sheet control and reconciliation experience.
- Ability to connect financial control outputs with business performance reporting and Finance Business Partnering activity.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience within regulated, partnership-based, or professional services environments is preferred.
- Experience supporting finance transformation or control enhancement programmes would be advantageous.
WHAT YOU’LL LOVE:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with finance professionals and be involved in various aspects of financial control and performance insight. You will contribute to the development of a scalable and sustainable financial management model while enhancing your skills and expertise in the finance sector.
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