Head of Financial Reporting & Analysis

Chartered Accountant (Financial Reporting & FP&A) — Job Description

Purpose

Own accurate statutory and management reporting while leading budgeting, forecasting, and commercial analysis. Tight close, clean audits, reliable forecasts, and actionable insight.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting & Compliance

• Run month-end close to timetable : journals, accruals / prepayments, intercompany, FX, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare robust management accounts with variance analysis and clear commentary.
• Produce statutory accounts under FRS 102 / IFRS ;

manage audit deliverables and resolve queries.

support corporation taxcomputations and liaison with advisers.

FP&A (Planning, Analysis & Decision Support)

maintain scenarios (best / base / worst) with sensitivities.

translate into headcount and OPEX plans.

Controls, Systems & Process Improvement

document policies and close checklists.

automate reconciliations and report refreshes.

standardise KPI definitions.

Stakeholder Management & Leadership

set expectations and hold owners to account.

raise the bar on accuracy and speed.

Qualifications & Experience

can prioritise and ship.

Tools

Power BI / Tableau for dashboards.

planning tools (WorkdayAdaptive, Anaplan, PBCS).

Competencies

KPIs