Head of Group Reporting

Leicester (Hybrid working available)

Bellrock Group are currently searching for a Head of Group Reporting. You will be responsible for leading on the internal and external reporting requirements of the organisation and ensuring a robust financial control framework and systems are in place and documented. Full responsibility for audit, VAT & Tax matters. This role is a key part of the Finance Leadership Team, driving improvement in controls and efficiency across the group.

Key Responsibilities

• Review of the financial governance and controls across the Bellrock Group and making recommendations for improvement to ensure appropriate and implementing change where needed.
• Control of the Bellrock Balance Sheet, ensuring full accountability or all balances across the various finance teams in the business.
• Preparation and group consolidation and consolidated financial statements for audit.
• Preparation of other audit opinion subsidiary company financial statements.
• Preparation of non-audit opinion subsidiary company financial statements.
• Responsible for ensuring all HMRC and foreign taxes are filed and paid on time. This includes but is not limited to; Corporation Tax, VAT, CIS, PSA, Social Security, Class 1A.
• Overall management and key contact for the group audit.
• Overall management of the financial accounts team (team of 5).
• Month end Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Maintaining ledger integrity and being a superuser for the finance and accounting system.
• Accounting for senior debt and intercompany loans.
• Ensuring accounting and tax legislation is followed and adhered to.
• Implementing significant changes in accounting law, such IFRS 16 and the VAT reverse charge.
• Internal expert for accounting and tax queries from the wider finance team, leaning on external support where required.
• Ad-hoc queries as required by the Head of Finance and CFO.
• Weekly investor reporting.
• Ensuring the development and high-quality output of the central financial accounts.
• Assisting with the onboarding and integration of new acquisitions as required.
  
  

Skills & Experience

• The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant ACA, CIMA or ACCA.
• Technically strong, with experience of Group consolidations and acquisition accounting.
• Comfortable running and motivating a central finance team, being hands on and also running project work as required.
• Enthusiastic, driven and self-motivated.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills are essential.
• Resilient and cash focused.
• Confident and comfortable dealing with multiple stakeholders.
• Reliability – responsible and dependable.
• Independence - able to manage own workload with minimum supervision.
• Good time management skills with the ability to prioritise effectively.
• Attention to detail – job requires being accurate in interpreting and communicating commercial details. Accurate data input requirements on internal and external works management systems.
• Possess an understanding of the demands related to working in a busy small accounting team.
• Possess energy and enthusiasm with a 'can do' positive attitude.
  
  

Working arrangements

We embrace smarter working practices which offer our employees the opportunity to work their hours flexibly and remotely where their roles and business needs allow. In this role, the successful candidate would be required to work from our Leicester office 1-2 days per week with the rest being worked from home.

What can we offer you?

Upon joining Bellrock, you can expect a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 1 additional day as a thank you (enjoy it, it’s on us)
• Highly competitive salary
• Car allowance
• Private healthcare
• Salary exchange pension scheme
• Life cover
• Paid sick leave
• Health Assured employee assistance and wellness program
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Salary sacrifice schemes:
• Cycle to work
• Holiday purchase scheme of additional 5 days per year
• Offers and discount scheme designed to save money on everyday shopping and essentials
• Healthcare Cashplan
• MotorSave Scheme
• Refer a friend
• Liftshare
• Virtual GP
  
  

Why Bellrock?

Our people are our passion, so we’re all about helping them to shine. That means putting everything in place for you to have a rewarding career with us. So you can go far in your career, with us behind you. And our business will grow, too. So, if you’re ready to start your career journey with Bellrock, we’re ready to welcome you. It’s a great place to be - the light, the energy, the solution. You.

Apply today.