The Crown Estate
Senior Group Reporting Manager
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Senior Group Reporting Manager
Advert Close Date: 21st August
Purpose of Role
Join The Crown Estate’s Group Finance team in a key leadership role responsible for delivering high-quality financial reporting, statutory accounts, and financial controls across the organisation. This role plays an important part in ensuring robust financial governance, supporting informed decision-making, and contributing to the finance transformation project, continuous improvement of finance processes, and reporting standards.
Context of Opportunity / Main Accountabilities
At The Crown Estate, we create lasting and shared value for the country while managing a diverse portfolio of land, property, and assets. As Senior Group Reporting Manager, you will help maintain the integrity and quality of our financial reporting, supporting both current operations and future transformation initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the preparation of Group financial statements and supporting the Annual Report and Accounts process.
- Overseeing statutory accounts preparation, audit, and filing activities for subsidiaries and managed joint ventures.
- Providing oversight of financial controls, ensuring they remain effective, well-documented, and aligned to business needs.
- Offering technical accounting expertise, including IFRS interpretation, accounting judgements, and audit support.
- Leading balance sheet reporting, reconciliations, and financial control activities.
- Supporting improvements to reporting processes, systems, and finance operations.
- Partnering with auditors, senior stakeholders, and colleagues across Finance and the wider business.
- Leading and developing a small team while helping build capability and consistent standards across the Finance function.
- Contributing to finance transformation projects and other priority reporting initiatives.
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Most Important Skills Based Requirements
- Qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience.
- Strong experience preparing and reviewing Group financial statements and statutory accounts within a complex organisation or through listed-company audit and advisory work.
- Excellent knowledge of IFRS and experience applying accounting standards and professional judgement to complex transactions.
- Experience managing financial reporting processes, audits, and financial controls.
- Ability to lead, develop, and support finance professionals to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience improving financial reporting processes, controls, or finance operations.
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining quality.
We encourage applications from candidates who may feel as though they do not possess all of the essential skills. The Crown Estate is firmly focused on skills-based hiring and recognises transferable skills and experiences. If your background aligns with the purpose of this role, we would welcome your application.
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The Crown Estate is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and experiences.
Our Offering / Benefits
As well as a competitive salary, pension, and performance-related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working, market-leading family policies, and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare, life and critical illness cover, and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work-life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self at work.
Disability Disclaimer
We are a proud disability-confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk.
Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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