Group Finance Reporting Analyst

The Group Finance Reporting Analyst is responsible for supporting the accurate, timely, and compliant reporting of the Group’s financial performance. This role plays a critical part in the preparation and consolidation of Group financial statements, ensuring alignment with IFRS, Group accounting policies and internal control standards. The position provides technical accounting support to regional finance teams, manages key reporting systems, and contributes to statutory reporting and audit requirements. In addition, the analyst drives continuous improvement across financial processes, strengthens reporting quality, and supports the Group’s finance transformation initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and data integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of half‑year and annual Group financial statements, ensuring all disclosures and supporting schedules comply with IFRS and internal deadlines.
• Assist in the end‑to‑end consolidation of all group entities, including preparation and posting of elimination journals, review of consolidation adjustments and resolution of inter‑company mismatches.
• Assist in review subsidiary submissions for completeness and accuracy, challenging unusual variances and ensuring consistency with Group reporting guidelines.
• Ensure all reported results adhere to IFRS, Group accounting policies and internal control requirements, escalating issues where deviations or risks are identified.
• Maintain, update and troubleshoot the Group’s consolidation system (IDL Konsis), including managing master data, mapping structures, and reporting templates.
• Support the preparation of statutory accounts for UK entities, ensuring alignment between statutory and Group reporting requirements.
• Prepare and publish monthly foreign exchange rates for Group‑wide use, ensuring accuracy and timely communication to all finance teams.
• Assist in preparing financial summaries, commentaries and analytical reports for senior management, the Group Finance team and external stakeholders.

Audit & Compliance

• Ensure consistent application of standardised accounting treatments across all subsidiaries in line with Group policies and relevant IFRS/local GAAP requirements.
• Perform detailed gap analyses between local GAAP and IFRS, identifying differences, documenting required adjustments and supporting local teams with implementation.
• Maintain uniformity in chart of accounts, reporting structures and financial classifications to ensure accuracy, comparability and standardisation across the Group.
• Manage the IFRS 16 lease accounting system (Visual Lease), including review of lease additions / modifications, validation of system calculations and coordination with entity controllers.
• Provide assistance in enforcing and enhancing the Group Accounting Manual, including proposing updates based on new standards or process changes.
• Support internal and external audit processes by preparing audit schedules, consolidations support, variance analyses and responding to audit queries in a timely manner.
• Monitor compliance with Group accounting policies, identifying areas of non‑compliance, recommending corrective actions and supporting remediation plans.
• Assist with statutory reporting and regulatory filings across Group entities as required, ensuring accuracy and adherence to local regulatory frameworks.

Process Improvement

• Identify and evaluate opportunities to streamline reporting processes, reduce manual effort and increase accuracy and reliability of data.
• Lead and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, data integrity and reporting efficiency (e.g. automation of schedules, improved system workflows).
• Collaborate with Group Finance and IT teams on finance transformation projects, including system upgrades, consolidation tool enhancements and digitalisation initiatives.
• Support the development and rollout of improved reporting templates, guidelines and training materials for local finance teams.
• Proactively identify control weaknesses or inefficiencies and propose practical solutions to strengthen the Group’s financial reporting framework.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience in Group Reporting, Consolidation, or Financial Accounting within a multinational organisation.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and consolidation principles.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with financial reporting systems.

Preferred

• Experience with consolidation tools (e.g., HFM, OneStream, Tagetik, SAP BPC).
• Experience working with cross‑functional and geographically dispersed teams.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• High attention to detail with a commitment to accuracy.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Proactive, collaborative and able to work effectively in a team environment.