Finance Systems Manager- Associate Director recruitment

Exciting opportunity to join the Group finance function of a leading Global Banking Group, allowing high visability and vast exposure to all areas of the bank and senior stakeholders.

The jobholder is responsible for monitoring updating the system that holds data that populates externally published reports owned by Group financial reporting, management reporting and regulatory reporting, and has involved data integrity steps along the way.
To work within the business to ensure financial control is embedded in the area, including the Sarbanes Oxley Act. This will include all aspects of financial reporting, especially IFRS.
The jobholder is a key member of the Financial Control team responsible for the Operations Function covering Data Integrity, Data Generation and Analysis, Technical Support and Data Capture and is involved in the following activities:
· Utilise depth and breadth of technical knowledge and experience combined with innovation and creativity to develop strategies to achieve the finance vision.
· Ensure that the Group Reporting system (Hyperion) is set up operating throughout the monthly reporting cycle per the agreed timetable
· Provide support to wider Group Finance team as subject matter expert for the Group Reporting system
· To continually identify areas of improvement and drive both improved efficiency and quality of the departments outputs
· Liaise with the Applications Management team on technical issues so that disruption to the end user is limited
· Utilise depth and breadth of technical knowledge and experience to assess changes being implemented as part of the quarterly release and provide input into the quarterly release process
· Oversee query resolution process for end users
· To foster best practice in finance areas across the Group
· To act as a coach to communicate and achieve the finance departments objectives and vision.
· To continually identify areas of improvement and drive both improved efficiency and quality of the departments outputs.
· To work in conjunction with the rest of the team and other Finance teams to to achieve the finance vision.
· To act as the key financial reporting contact within Financial Control and to the Clusters, providing focused and value adding decision support ensuring that both the Bank and local financial reporting requirements are met
· To recruit and develop staff within the financial reporting team to enable progression within either Financial Control or the wider Banking group
· To work in conjunction with the rest of the team and other Finance teams to produce best in class internal and external financial reports
· To manage the work delivered by the offshore team and further development and knowledge transfer to the team
· To develop training material and deliver training as required to all users of the Hyperion system

Experience and Qualifications - Essential
· Education to degree level (preferable)
· Formal accounting qualification (preferable) - ACA,CIMA, ACCA (or equivalent)
· Experience working at a senior level within a financial services or other blue chip organisation.
· Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) experience.
· Strong systems experience.

Any further questions and to see the full job spec please call Sophia on 02077479773 or email sophia.sabet@markssattin.com

We regret that due to the high volume of applications we are only able to contact suitable candidates.