Head of Group Reporting

Leicester (Hybrid working available)

Bellrock Group are currently searching for a Head of Group Reporting. You will be responsible for leading on the internal and external reporting requirements of the organisation and ensuring a robust financial control framework and systems are in place and documented. Full responsibility for audit, VAT & Tax matters. This role is a key part of the Finance Leadership Team, driving improvement in controls and efficiency across the group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review of the financial governance and controls across the Bellrock Group and making recommendations for improvement to ensure appropriate and implementing change where needed.
• Control of the Bellrock Balance Sheet, ensuring full accountability or all balances across the various finance teams in the business.
• Preparation and group consolidation and consolidated financial statements for audit.
• Preparation of other audit opinion subsidiary company financial statements.
• Preparation of non-audit opinion subsidiary company financial statements.
• Responsible for ensuring all HMRC and foreign taxes are filed and paid on time. This includes but is not limited to; Corporation Tax, VAT, CIS, PSA, Social Security, Class 1A.
• Overall management and key contact for the group audit.
• Overall management of the financial accounts team (team of 5).
• Month end Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Maintaining ledger integrity and being a superuser for the finance and accounting system.
• Accounting for senior debt and intercompany loans.
• Ensuring accounting and tax legislation is followed and adhered to.
• Implementing significant changes in accounting law, such IFRS 16 and the VAT reverse charge.
• Internal expert for accounting and tax queries from the wider finance team, leaning on external support where required.
• Ad-hoc queries as required by the Head of Finance and CFO.
• Weekly investor reporting.
• Ensuring the development and high-quality output of the central financial accounts.
• Assisting with the onboarding and integration of new acquisitions as required.

Skills & experience:

• The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant ACA, CIMA or ACCA.
• Technically strong, with experience of Group consolidations and acquisition accounting.
• Comfortable running and motivating a central finance team, being hands on and also running project work as required.
• Enthusiastic, driven and self-motivated.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are essential.
• Resilient and cash focused.
• Confident and comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders.
• Reliability – responsible and dependable.
• Independence - able to manage own workload with minimum supervision.
• Good time management skills with the ability to prioritise effectively.
• Attention to detail – job requires being accurate in interpreting and communicating commercial details. Accurate data input requirements on internal and external works management systems.
• Possess an understanding of the demands related to working in a busy small accounting team.
• Possess energy and enthusiasm with a 'can do' positive attitude.