Group Reporting Manager - London, United Kingdom - Fastmarkets

Description

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets. Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.

This is a newly created role following Fastmarkets separation from a FTSE 250 PLC. The role will be responsible for establishing and running the core processes for a stand-alone group to deliver the year end audit and Group Financial Statements as well as the month end consolidation. The role requires strong technical experience of ensuring compliance with IFRS.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Managing the year end process to deliver the Group Financial Statements within 2.5 months of year end (year end is 30 September)
• Managing the relationship with the Group auditors
• Preparing the Group and UK entity financial statements
• Month end responsibility for consolidation and cashflow reporting including accounting for foreign currency, debt, pensions, share-based payments and tax
• Technical accounting lead - ensuring compliance with IFRS accounting standards and being the lead on sharing technical updates with the wider finance team
• Develop and ensure compliance with the Group accounting manual
• Working with the Internal Controls Manager to develop and strengthen the controls framework
• Working with the Group Tax Manager to develop efficient processes to support the tax calculations both for compliance and accounting purposes.

KEY INTERFACES

• Financial Controls, Commercial Finance and FP&A teams
• Group Tax Manager
• Group Treasurer
• External auditors and specialist advisors
• Finance Leadership team including CFO
  
  

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world's leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Experience

• Qualified accountant (at least 3 years post qualified experience)
• Preparation of UK group and entity management accounts
• Good understanding of and experience with IFRS
• Strong excel skills
• Skilled at using finance ERP systems (Netsuite and Anaplan experience desirable)
• Good understanding of subscription and data business models for information services (desirable)
• Experience working in a private equity owned environment (desirable)

Skills and knowledge

• Strong stakeholder management skillset and a natural collaborator
• Can challenge current practices and think innovatively in executing work
• Able to work independently and manage multiple tight deadlines
• Able to solve problems with creative and pragmatic ideas and uses sound judgements based on risk assessment
• Attention to detail, ability to rapidly understand end to end business operations and inherent risks

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It's this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers' experience and our business performance
  
  
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
  
  
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
  
  
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
  
  
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
  
  
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

You've read a little about us – now it's over to you

If you like what you've read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it's time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it's used to determine whether or not you'll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we'll ask you on the day.

It's vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you're great.