Job Description

Robert Walters are partnering with a global financial services business in their search for a qualified Settlements Finance Manager to join the business on a permanent basis. Based in Spinningfields, the business have recently invested in new internal platforms, and due to growth they are looking to bring on an experienced finance professional to continue driving the business forward. The role would see the right individual leading a team of qualified and non-qualified team members to accurately account for all cash related settlement transactions, and to provide insightful business analysis to ensure their cash positions are optimized.

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead and motivate a team of 7-9 colleagues to ensure all cash related transactions are accurately accounted and reconciled.
• Manage the month end processes, ensuring all journals are completed and posted accurately.
• Ensure all balance sheets are fully reconciled and all items are accompanied with relevant and insightful narratives.
• Provide ongoing coaching and guidance to increase the accounting capability and commercial acumen to team members.
• Create effective working relationships with various stakeholders to understand the drivers of the account transactions and balances and fully understand the nature of any reconciliation differences.
• Represent the cash balance sheet positions in any audit setting, ensuring balances are accurately represented.
• Evaluate the cash accounts on an ongoing basis for risks that need to be mitigated and make recommendations on such mitigations.
• Analyse account balances and movements in relation to business performance to insightfully \'tell the story\'.
• Combine the accounting data and the operational data to provide commercial insights to drive more favourable outcomes for the business.

Key Skills:

• Professional Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).
• Effective communicator and challenger with stakeholders including audiences of varying financial and commercial acumen.
• Proven track record of managing and influencing senior decision makers.
• Strong commercial acumen with a clear focus on driving excellent financial and commercial performance.
• Comfortable handling large volumes of data for reconciliation and for analytical purposes, and summarising key themes/outputs.
• Experience of maintaining good control in a fast-paced, high volume and value, transformational environment

This is a fantastic opportunity for a qualified finance professional to join a leading and recognisable business after a period of growth. For more information on this opportunity, please apply below or reach out to Charlotte Clooney directly.

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