Lorien
Head of Group Financial Reporting
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Head of Group Financial Reporting
Role: Head of Group Financial Reporting
Engagement: 2 Month contract with potential to extend
Location: UK wide with travel to site when required
Overview
We are supporting a leading Insurance and Financial Services organisation in the search for an experienced Head of Group Financial Reporting to provide leadership during a critical reporting period. The successful candidate will support Half-Year (HY) Reporting, Financial & Regulatory (F&R) reporting activities, and preparation for the Q3 reporting cycle.
This senior contract opportunity requires a highly experienced finance leader with deep technical accounting expertise, strong stakeholder management capabilities, and a proven track record delivering high-quality reporting within a regulated financial services environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Group Financial Reporting activities across Half-Year reporting, Financial & Regulatory reporting requirements, and Q3 preparation.
- Provide technical accounting oversight and guidance on complex accounting and reporting matters.
- Review, challenge and approve key accounting judgements, assumptions and disclosures.
- Ensure the accuracy, quality and timeliness of all regulatory, statutory and management reporting deliverables.
- Partner closely with Finance, Actuarial, Risk and Executive stakeholders to ensure alignment across reporting outputs.
- Manage reporting governance and maintain an effective control environment throughout the reporting cycle.
- Support executive decision-making through the provision of robust financial insight and analysis.
- Drive reporting improvements and contribute to reporting transformation initiatives where required.
- Oversee consolidation processes and support enhancements to reporting architecture and operating models.
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Skills & Experience Required
Essential
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
- Significant Financial Services experience, ideally within Life Insurance, Pensions or a broader Insurance environment.
- Extensive experience leading statutory, regulatory and management reporting functions.
- Exceptional technical accounting knowledge and understanding of reporting governance frameworks.
- Proven ability to operate at senior leadership level and influence executive stakeholders.
- Strong track record of managing critical reporting cycles and delivering under tight deadlines.
- Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills.
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Desirable
- Experience working within reporting change or finance transformation programmes.
- Exposure to consolidation architecture and reporting process optimisation.
- Strong understanding of regulatory reporting obligations within insurance and pensions organisations.
- Experience collaborating with actuarial teams and interpreting actuarial inputs into financial reporting outputs.
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