Senior Group Manager, IFRS

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Supporting the Director, IFRS Performance Management, responsible for:
- Reviewing, analysing and interpreting business units’ IFRS financial performance, and its consistency with TEV and other reporting metrics.
- Providing timely and insightful IFRS financial reporting and management information to Group stakeholders.
- Business partner, providing business and accounting guidance, and sharing best practice.

Job Requirements:

• Proactively review and analyse IFRS submissions, and clearly articulate key performance and technical issues.
• Work closely with the Group Finance and Actuarial reporting team, the regional performance management teams, and local business units on identified issues, and collaborate on appropriate resolutions.
• Manage quarterly, half-yearly, and annual processes and deliverables relating to IFRS actual reporting, the 3-year Plan, and quarterly forecasts, including external disclosures.
• Consolidate the results and prepare analysis and management reports with high accuracy and timeliness.
• Ensure relevant and accurate financial & management information are made available to senior management.
• Proactively review and improve IFRS processes and workflows to deliver increased operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Assist in investigations to optimise financial outcomes and enhance consistency in application across the Group.
• Support the assessment of BUs’ AIB outcomes.

Job Qualifications:

• University degree
• Professional actuarial/accounting qualification
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in finance/accounting/actuarial roles
• Solid IFRS 17 knowledge and experience
• Strong analytical and problems solving skills, with good attention to detail and accuracy
• Highly responsible, strong time and task management skills to ensure on-time high quality delivery
• Excellent numerical, written, and verbal communications skills
• Proactive in learning and development, proactive to improve efficiency and existing operational processes
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint
• Experiences in common accounting and MI systems, e.g. OneStream, Oracle, Hyperion, SAS, Anaplan etc.
• Excellent written and spoken English

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