Responsibilities:
- Analyse the Management P&L and Balance sheet, and also the Statutory P&L and Balance sheet, to ensure that financial statements are accurate and complete.
- Analyse trends and work collaboratively across the Finance community to understand variations in trends and against the comparator of historic actuals e.g. Variance against prior year.
- Ensure GL codes are used consistently and appropriately across the organisation
- Set up and operate BFC reports that allow us to have consistent view of financial statements
- Prepare standard and ad-hoc analysis reports for group.
- This role is high profile and you will work naturally across a matrix organisation. You will engage well with a range of stakeholders in WPP IT Finance and F+ to promote continuous improvement, compliance and best practice
- Identify areas for improvement and lead through to resolution. Listen to stakeholders and combine feedback from them with your own ideas to recommend changes to upstream business process, to address issues that are driving inaccuracies in the financial statements.
- Ensure SOX controls are adhered to.
Qualification:
- Qualified / nearly-qualified accountant (i.e. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Degree or equivalent (i.e. MBA) desirable but not essential
- Experience of working in a matrix/global organisation desirable
Skills / Experience Requirements
- Experience working in a large organisation with a high-volume intercompany transactions
- Experience of providing support for SOX controls or audit
- Advanced excel skills
- SAP BFC experience or a similar consolidation system
- Experience in financial management
- Tenacity, whilst acting high integrity and strong ethics.
- Ability to build excellent business relationships, based on trust and mutual respect
- Ability to challenge to clarify understanding and solve problems
- Autonomous and organised
- Ability to deal effectively with pressure
- Be a strategic thinker
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