Head of Financial Reporting and Tax UK

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MAIN PURPOSE

The Head of Financial Reporting and Tax is responsible for ensuring that the monthly, quarterly and yearly reporting requirements at both a Statutory and Group level are met, driving synergies and consistencies across all UK market entities.

Key Responsibilities

Group and Statutory Reporting

• Responsible for coordinating and producing the year-end Group and statutory Financial Statements of all the entities in the UK under UK GAAP/IFRS Group standards.
• Support driving process improvements with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Bring efficiency to the organization by implementing software enhancement and other efficiency matters.
• Contribute in defining, rolling out, leading and improving finance processes necessary to produce the Statutory financial statements.
• Build a strong and high-performance team to efficiently manage all finance operations while ensuring strong and transparent communication throughout the UK market and Group stakeholders.

Tax

• Responsible for all tax filings, tax returns, tax audits and contact with local tax authorities; inform brands, shared service functions and Global Tax department in case of changes in local tax rules; provide tax intelligence to entities in scope.
• Responsible for the coordination and preparation of all the SAO & CCO reports.
• Continuously seek areas of improvement of tax structure and tax payments.
• Responsible for the tax actual for Q2, Q3, and YE.
• Lead in the coordination of the consolidation of the UK tax reporting.
• Liaise and coordinate with external stakeholders / Tax firms; constantly review external tax services in scope.

Reporting and statutory Audits

• Responsible for the reporting and statutory audits process in the UK for all the entities in scope.
• Responsible for obtaining a clean audit opinion from the Group’s external auditors and coordinating any information required during the audit.
• Responsible for liaising with Group Internal Auditors during their audits of finance controls under scope.
• Coordinate with the UK Statutory and Taxation Director, the Group Tax Director, third party tax advisers and the UK appointed auditors.

Internal Control Systems (ICS)

• Provide support for all compliance tasks, tests, walk‑throughs and ICS reporting, audits and reviews; ensure segregation of duties and mitigating controls as well as proper system access controls.
• Training on Group Procedures and technical knowledge.
• Full knowledge of the Richemont Group Finance policies and procedures and IAS standards applicable to Richemont local entities; GAAP differences (UK/IFRS).
• Shared responsibility with entity FD/Accounting heads for training all Company staff on Group Finance policies, procedures and IAS standards, as appropriate, considering staff’s respective job descriptions.

Miscellaneous

• Help with various other centralised tasks e.g. insurances, treasury, HSBC platform administration, cash pool, etc.
• Serve as the single point of contact for cross‑entity projects.

Dimension

• 8 Legal entities under direct responsibility.
• 6 Legal entities under coordination.
• Responsible for Financial Reporting Department.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Accounting/Auditing

Industries

• Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry