Venesky Brown Recruitment Seeks Financial Reporting Lead for Sizewell C

Venesky Brown Recruitment are seeking an experienced Financial Reporting Lead to join the Finance team at Sizewell C. This is a contract role based in the London office with hybrid working available.

Job Purpose / Overview:

The IFRS Reporting Lead is responsible for the operational delivery of the IFRS reporting of the SZC Project. They will support the Senior Financial Reporting Manager to design and document processes, develop their team, apply judgement to the recording of transactions and be able to explain the IFRS reporting produced.

The role requires proactive expert level core understanding of consolidated financial reporting under IFRS, or similar frameworks. They combine their technical and financial reporting expertise with their knowledge of the external regulated environment and industry, the business entity and its operating model, objectives and challenges. The role will work collaboratively with the other Finance teams under the CFO but also with the other Corporate teams including Legal, Project Controls, Supply Chain and HR in addition to the Delivery Programmes of the project. The role holder will support the SZC Head of Finance and SZC Senior Leadership team to own, manage and maintain financial control and governance processes, partnering with all stakeholders, driving awareness of financial performance, enhancing decision making and supporting the effective delivery of the project.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Delivering a smooth and well planned month end process that meets the requirements of internal management reporting as well as the needs of Corporate stakeholders. This includes ensuring transactions are consistent with SZC accounting policies for IFRS, and the outputs align with the needs of the business teams.
• Facilitating a smooth IFRS reporting audit process, coordinating inputs from other teams, ensuring the process is well planned and challenging the audit requirements to make sure they are well understood.
• Providing insight, sense checking and interpretation of the data, ensuring that the commentaries are supported by analysis, and that the story and messages are consistent throughout.
• Input into the development of accounting policies, implementation and review of financial controls and providing timely, accurate IFRS financial information.
• Implementing best practice financial behaviours and coaching the business in the importance and benefits of accurate financial information.
• Supporting enterprise-wide change initiatives e.g. regulatory driven, cost or growth initiatives.
• Handling ad-hoc requests for information, providing detailed analysis to support decision making.
• Reporting to the Senior Financial Reporting Manager and managing two direct reports.