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Join us as a Business Unit Reporting Team LeadWell look to you to support the delivery of end-to-end business unit reporting control activities for each of our franchises and legal entitiesYour daily responsibilities will see you providing support to our customers at a senior level in key finance areas, while helping with the transition to a Global Process Owner modelIf youre ready for a new challenge and want to enhance your leadership skills in a role where youll contribute as a mentor to our skills development programme, wed like to hear from youWe're offering this role for a period of nine monthsWhat youll doDay-to-day, youll be establishing working relationships with key customers and stakeholders in the wider Finance team, including our franchise and legal entity Financial Controllers, while complying with relevant policies and considering and escalating the effectiveness of our controls on a regular basis.Alongside this, youll be helping to shape the strategy and operating model for financial control for your business area, with the objective of establishing and maintaining the trust and confidence of our key customers and stakeholders.Your top priorities will include:Delivering within SLA of a full set of high quality and consistently accurate financial outputs in order to support statutory, regulatory and management reportingEnsuring the integrity of monthly, quarterly and annual financial information, including the balance sheet, profit and loss account, reporting and other supporting dataReviewing the product level data outputs from the product control teams to make sure that theyre appropriately recorded and substantiated to reflect our positionEstablishing robust analytical procedures over the balance sheet and profit and loss account to build an understanding of our business and its key driversOverseeing and making sure that processes and procedures adhere to the appropriate policies and control environment governance, including SOXSupporting strategic imperatives, including culture and people development by participating or leading the programme as a specialistDriving strategic initiatives while working closely with different teams to build a robust customer ethosThe skills youll needTo be successful in this role, youll need to be a qualified accountant and have a record of application within a business environment. Youll also have experience of leading global teams of finance professionals, working to tight deadlines and managing key finance deliverables.Furthermore, youll need:Knowledge of change best practicesAn understanding of how to deliver change in the financial services industry or medium to large corporatesExperience of Oracle financial applications and using the latest data management techniques and applications, including AWS and TableauThe ability to build and enhance key relationships at a senior level, while influencing and challenging as requiredExperience of leading the delivery of financial control and reporting outputs, including ledger close, balance sheet substantiation, statutory and management reporting and external audits