We are looking for a fully qualified Finance Manager to join our Hove based team.

This role supports the Financial Reporting Manager(s) within the Statutory and Regulatory Reporting team (STARR) in the management, production and review of statutory results for assigned legal entities, in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), both for Group reporting deliveries and Legal Entity accounts.

Principal Accountabilities:

Delivery Management

Provide assurance of the completion of key deliverables, for the statutory reporting process for specific legal entities, as assigned by the Financial Reporting Manager. Enable the team, to deliver all required financial reporting, along with supporting analysis, meeting Group Finance and other customer requirements, including the co-ordination of inputs and timescales from all other teams involved, plus result commentary and disclosure preparation.

Key accountabilities include:

Reporting entity IFRS results and disclosures for Group, quarterly

Legal Entity results for entity board

Keeping abreast of industry developments and best practice

Ensure reporting is performed to agreed levels of accuracy, with appropriate liaison with Group technical resources and external auditors. Adopt a proactive approach to delivering innovative timescale and process efficiencies.

Manage and monitor issue resolution during reporting production, ensuring communication with key stakeholders and appropriate reconciliation and consolidation of key metrics.

Work with the Auditors from a financial reporting perspective and ensure all requirements are delivered to agreed quality levels.

Apply IFRS technical knowledge to all reporting and ensure it is in line with new standards.

Customer Relationship Management

Work with key customers on reporting issues, including agreeing reporting requirements and deadlines, with effective communication and presentation of results.

Assist with engagements with Group and Prudential Risk to ensure the delivery of financial results continues to meet needs and quality expectations.

Support business unit finance teams to meet their financial requirements. Ensure the relationship between business unit results and entity level and consolidated results is understood and reconciled.

Engage with customers to understand their requirements and needs.  Contribute to resolving and advising on technical issues within a financial reporting framework.

Treating Customers Fairly

Ensure that the appropriate Finance MI, processes and systems are in place to provide support to Group Finance, Prudential Risk, and Group Tax so that customers are treated fairly in line with Legal & General’s Customer Experience and TCF policy.

Internal Relationship Management

Work with internal stakeholders and suppliers to ensure deliverables are understood planned, and delivered by the financial reporting processes. Ensure that the team maintains their own relationships with relevant stakeholders and suppliers.

Work with the Group tax team to ensure deliverables required for the tax process are understood, produced and reconciled

Key internal relationships: FRC Actuarial reporting teams, Group Tax, LGIM, LGIM Property, LG Re, Group Finance Technical, Finance Change team.

Process Management

Contribute to the ongoing review and challenge of processes to establish efficiencies within the financial reporting team, transferring activity where appropriate and driving efficiencies whilst maintaining control and quality. Challenge the teams to deliver innovative timescale and process improvements.

People Management

Provide coaching and management to direct reports, ensuring that Group employee policies are applied in a consistent manner.

Planning

Contribute to the production activity planning phases, agreeing and setting requirements in terms of timeliness and quality. Actively manage time to deliver to timetable during reporting cycles.

Projects & Change Management

Contribute on behalf of the reporting team as directed by the Financial Reporting Manager to group, business and internal projects, ensuring requirements are understood and agreed, planned and implemented appropriately.

Engage with FRO Change and business unit change to provide financial reporting insight to projects, ensuring requirements for ledgers and reporting are thoroughly considered and included in project plans.

Qualifications:

Qualified Accountant

Specific Experience

PQE in a financial services environment, preferably with a life insurer

Knowledge:

1. Financial Reporting

Detailed knowledge of current IFRS reporting requirements, working knowledge of upcoming standards and proposals, working knowledge of some aspects of US GAAP

2. Regulatory Reporting

3. Change Management

Skills:

Advanced excel skills

Good report writing skills

Good communication skills

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 27 days' holiday,private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.