Base salary: £54500 pa to c.£68150 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. This means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
As a MI and Reporting Manager, you will support the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis in leading an insightful reporting and analysis function that services the rest of finance. By overseeing the MI and Reporting team, you will ensure that both key capacity and service levels are appropriate and have embedded agility so that reporting requirements meet the needs of HS2 stakeholders.
About the role:
* Building and maintaining strong relationships with Heads of Finance and their FBP teams based on trust.
* Enabling robust decision making through analysis, insight and reporting, including financial transactions, such as accruals, journals, reconciliations.
* Generating standard financial reporting to ensure consistent, accurate, timely data and one version of the truth, to include month-end reporting.
* Building an in-depth understanding of the business and cost drivers.
* Providing analytical support to FBPs to facilitate Directorate performance evaluation.
* Supporting Business Finance in developing a financial strategy to enable successful achievement of objectives.
* Supporting Finance Partnering through the forecasting and planning cycle to obtain funding for business delivery priorities.
* Building relationships with other areas of HS2, such as HR MI team, Business Managers.
* Providing specialist finance advice for complex financial issues.
* Understanding and presenting information to develop financial insight, control costs and develop risk management strategies.
* Actively promoting and embedding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work.
About you:
Skills:
* Communication skills: Ability to interpret and communicate complex financial issues to non-financial colleagues.
* Technical accounting skills (current IFRS and FReM understanding) including knowledge of Government accounting requirements.
* Ability to interpret complex financial data to support decisions and recommendations.
* Ability to analyse and interpret complex financial information throughout the programme lifecycle.
* Ability to use ERP systems and complex Excel models.
* Ability to develop and set clear timetables, guidance, templates and communications.
* Ability to deliver value adding MI and ensure effective financial controls.
* Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and communicate with stakeholders up to Executive level.
* Ability to prioritise and make insightful recommendations.
* Ability to manage teams and resolve issues to agreed deadlines.
* Ability to critically review and challenge performance.
Knowledge:
* Knowledge of how to interpret and communicate complex financial issues.
* Knowledge of accounting systems and the ability to develop and manage off-system analyses.
* Knowledge of how to develop output driven, activity based budgets.
Type of experience:
* Experience driving output focussed, activity based budgets and forecasts.
* Leading the process for development of the annual business plan and budget setting processes.
* Experience engaging and collaborating with key stakeholders and partner functions.
* Qualified Accountant with experience of operating at a senior level in a complex environment.
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.
It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV.
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
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