Financial Reporting Planning Manager

DEL Phoenix del

Location: Birmingham
Salary:
Closing Date: 09 March 2020
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All applicants must be based in the UK and confirm that they are able to prove their eligibility to work in the UK.

Job Description

Ref: 3715

About the Role

To manage planning of each quarterly Finance reporting period, producing a scope, a high and medium level plan.

To manage execution of the plan each quarter, regularly reporting progress to senior management

To manage timely problem resolution in order to ensure any issues are followed up on a timely basis and ensuring all key stakeholders are proactively engaged.

To manage the small change budget and approval process

To provide ad-hoc project management support for additional regulatory and statistical reporting requests.

We are looking for

Delivery of the reporting requirements, detailed plans and controls for each quarters financial reporting processes, working in conjunction with the the business to continuously identify and implement improvements and accelerated processes in support of a more efficient reporting close process and in order to achieve the delivery of IFRS, Solvency II results, QRTs and any other key metrics.

To also ensure that all handoffs between teams within Finance and external to Finance, including third party providers are identified, documented and agreed and quality criteria is also defined. There are multiple interfaces external to Life Finance including, WP Management and Capital Management and the Actuarial Function Holders.

To liaise with Group Finance and Group Actuarial teams to ensure that Group deliverables and timescales are understood and incorporated into Life Finance reporting processes.

To liaise with Legal Department and the Company Secretary to ensure that the governance processes and timetables are incorporated into the overall plans.

To project manage the delivery of the all the annual, quarterly, half year and year end financial reporting results by ensuring that robust monitoring, issue resolution and escalation processes are in place. This will include running daily and weekly meetings, production of Issue Logs, provide weekly status reports to management and weekly Dashboards for all key stakeholders.

To work with external audit team to ensure that the required audit scope and activities are built into the overall Life Finance reporting processes and timetable.

To facilitate the external audit process to ensure that the auditors receive the required information and to minimise the disruption to the business areas by acting as the focal point for requests for further information and initial query resolution.

To ensure a robust process for lessons learned post each reporting period to ensure issues identified during the reporting period are captured and corrective actions agreed and implemented prior to the next reporting period


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