Rutherford Cross is delighted to be working with one of Scotland's leading FMCG businesses to appoint a Group Financial Reporting Leader. This is an exceptional opportunity for a CA from a Big 4 firm to move into a business with succession planning in mind. The post-holder will have excellent technical accounting skills, team management capabilities and experience of auditing large, complex businesses.

The purpose of the role is to drive and deliver accurate, complete and timely statutory financial reporting information ensuring alignment to the Group Finance Manual and group wide accounting policies and guidance notes. This hybrid role offers an attractive salary of £75,000 -£80,000.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver all regulatory financial statements ensuring they are created with integrity and accuracy and appropriately controlled and monitored, ensuring completeness of information across the business and in compliance with our group accounting policies
• Maintain the Global Finance Manual, ensuring it reflects current policies and procedures that are aligned with up to date statutory, regulatory and management operating model requirements
• Be accountable for the development of accounting processes and financial system changes required to enable developments in accounting standards to be implemented fully within the Group
• Drive and deliver the Group and subsidiary statutory financial reporting processes to ensure robust financial statements that are complete, accurate and in line with legal requirements and internal timelines
• Deliver reporting to the Audit Committee in line with the annual agenda and Committee Terms of Reference
• Manage relationships with external auditors to ensure all audit requirements are delivered in line with the statutory timetable
• Develop and ensure technical awareness and expertise in all areas of statutory reporting to enable the support and delivery of financial reporting and related team and function initiatives
• Develop and deliver standardised accounting processes for the Group, including, closing processes, etc., and create tools and templates
• Actively co-ordinate and participate in major internal Group projects and ensure integration to ‘business as usual’ for innovation, business development and corporate structure changes, for example, Company and Brand acquisitions and lead the relationships with external parties engaged to support with due diligence

On Offer:

• 34 days annual leave including public holidays
• Company bonus scheme (circa on-target 11.25%; maximum 22.5%)
• Private health insurance with family cover
• Defined contribution pension scheme with employer contributions of 8%/10% where employees contribute 4%/5% respectively
• Company car or 7k cash allowance
• 8x salary life assurance scheme
• Generous personal product allowance and discounts
• Access to a number of corporate discounts, wellness resources and cycle to work scheme

For more information on the role, please contact Jonathan Donnelly at Rutherford Cross: [email protected]

Our client is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy and maternity.