Mananger Accounting Policy recruitment

Unique opportunity for a recently qualified accountant from a top tier accountant practice to join one of the World's leading Banking Groups in their Group function, allowing them exposure to Senior Stakeholders across the business. This offers a brilliant chance to take your first step outside of Practice in a highly prestigious environment, surrounded by high performing individuals.

An important member of a central technical team that is responsible for the maintenance and development of Group accounting policy. In particular the Accounting Policy Manager will assist with ensuring that:
 Statutory and other shareholder reporting meets the legal, listing rules and accounting requirements in so far as presentation and disclosure are concerned
 Advice and support is provided to help ensure that other aspects of accounting policy can be adhered to
 there is sufficient awareness and understanding by Finance and the wider financial community of existing accounting policies and new developments that affect current reporting or will affect future reporting
 Accounting policies are developed in response to new and revised accounting standards and other new statutory reporting provisions, that these requirements are understood by the Group as required and that support is provided for implementation.
 Senior management understand the implications of accounting policies, changes to accounting policies so that they can communicate effectively with the investor community
Views on new accounting issues are developed internally and communicated with professional and industry bodies and direct accounting standard setters, regulators and government. This is a hot topic at the moment in the finance world, so a highly sort out skill set on the market in a high demand area so this is a fantastic opportunity.

The ideal candidate will be from a strong financial accounting background with auditing experience, possibly in a banking environment
Interest in accounting technical issues
Understanding and appreciation of recent accounting developments
Some knowledge of one or more of:
- International accounting standards
- Disclosure requirements
- Key differences between IFRS and US GAAP

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