Financial Reporting & Audit Manager

This role sits within the MBNL's Finance Department ( 35 people), in the Financial Accounting and Reporting Team. The team are responsible for all aspects of financial reporting (management and statutory), financial compliance, accounts receivable and payable functions as well as internal and external audits. MBNL's finance department looks after the statutory MBNL co as well as a number of pass-through entities (maintained as separate ETBs for our Shareholders). This is a hybrid role with 2 days/week based in our Reading office.

What you will do:

• Manage the Shareholder's Unilateral Project financial reporting and the associated

audit requirements, internal reviews of financial controls and risks as well as to facilitate and support external audit requests (statutory, internal, and ad hoc)

• Be responsible for producing and distributing monthly reports consolidating information produced by multiple third-party outsourced providers. Ensuring completeness and accuracy and reconciling back to the General Ledger.

• Facilitate Shareholder's unilateral audits, including engagement, planning, communication, coordination of the request and obtaining and providing explanations to ensure satisfactory completion.

• Review MBNL's financial risks and controls register, policies and procedures and conduct internal compliance testing

• Review and where necessary update/create necessary financial policies and procedures

• Interact with other Finance teams to support explanation of finance results, conveying complex/detailed data transactions to various areas of the business to enable analysis work for any Ad Hoc Unilateral Request

• Review and prioritise audit requests and obtain/provide the required information in a timely manner

• Consult with relevant stakeholders to ensure the audit is progressing smoothly

• Create/Update and review existing Unilateral Accounting Policies and ensure they are up to date

• Provide Ad hoc support to the financial accounting and reporting team as and when needed

What we are looking for:

• Newly or Recently Qualified Accountant

• Recent audit experience with the ability to request audit samples

• Good understanding of financial policies, procedures and risks and controls

• Exposure to handling Budgets, Forecasts, variance analysis

• Strong understanding of auditing principles and practices

• Excellent communication and people skills

• Experience in working with multiple ERP systems and Ability to work on Excel

• Strong Stakeholder Engagement and Business Partnership experience

Nice to have:

• Experience of working with IFS 16

• Financial Accounting experience or management of large CAPEX/OPEX budgets is ideal but not required

MBNL - building strength through inclusion.

At MBNL we embrace equality, diversity, and inclusion. People are at the heart of everything we do and collectively we strive to create an environment where everyone can flourish. By fostering an inclusive environment, we are championing each other's uniqueness.

Inclusion & Diversity within MBNL will unlock innovation and continue to evolve how we work, to help us deliver world class infrastructure for our Shareholders and their customers.

We will work creatively to offer flexible working arrangements, (like non-standard hours, part-time, remote working). We want to support you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities.

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