Location: Durham, North East England, DH1 5TR

Job summary

As Financial Reporting Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that HM Land Registry reports its financial data in an accurate and timely way to stakeholders, whilst also ensuring compliance with all statutory, Cabinet Office and HM Treasury reporting requirements.

You will be the expert in ensuring effective procedures and policies are in place, as well as working with your team to review processes and implement continuous improvement.

You will join our active Finance Community where we share experiences and practices, seek support and raise opportunities for development opportunities, as well as hosting regular conferences. We feed into the cross-government Finance Networks and there are many opportunities to network and learn.

Reporting to the Deputy Financial Controller, this role is part of a wider Finance team supporting the Financial Controller, Deputy Chief Finance Officer and the Finance Senior Leadership team.

Your main duties will include production of statutory financial accounts including liaising with a range of colleagues and wider stakeholders.

You will prepare all submissions to HM Treasury including Main and Supplementary Estimate returns, production of the Whole of Government Accounts, monthly cash drawdown and monthly expenditure, using the OSCAR system.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Cash Management and Income Recognition teams including cash forecasting, processing of bank payments, payment approvals and associated reporting.

You will ensure performance levels are maintained by monitoring and acting on key performance metrics whilst contributing and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.

You will be accountable for providing accurate, relevant and timely information which meets decision making needs, and will develop and maintain positive relationships with a wide range of Finance and Business colleagues.

You will work as part of a team, sharing experience and knowledge (including designing training courses) to improve team efficiency and develop knowledge and skills, and support your fellow Financial Operations team leads in achieving their deliverables.

Please see the attached Candidate Pack for more information.

Person specification

To be successful for this role, you will be a fully qualified CCAB accountant (or internationally recognised equivalent) and member of a CCAB accountancy body.

You will have experience of preparing annual accounts, including working with auditors throughout the audit processes, and be adept at identifying opportunities for system and process improvements, including developing and implementing proposals.

You will possess strong Excel skills, and be able to build and maintain strong working relationships within team and wider business.

Where an individual taking up the responsibility will be based in our Swansea Office, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

Qualifications Fully qualified CCAB accountant (or internationally recognised equivalent) and member of a CCAB accountancy body Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: £44,081.00-£48,124.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension

Work Location: In person