Manager Financial Reporting

Job Title: Manager Financial Reporting

About the Function:

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We're part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we're utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future - no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we'll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

Role Responsibilities:

Manager-Financialreporting(Grade-5B)

Technical accounting

• Lead interpretation of complex accounting standards (IFRS/Ind AS) & prepare technical memos.
• Provide proactive, practical accounting guidance to business, finance teams, and senior leadership.
• Drive implementation of new accounting standards across the organisation.
• Support M&A transactions, including due diligence, purchase accounting, and integration.
• Monitor evolving accounting regulations and assess their impact on financial reporting.

Financial accounting, book closing and reporting for subsidiaries and consolidation

• Lead monthly group financial submission via consolidation tool and ensure completeness and accuracy
• Preparation of quarterly/annual financial statements as per Ind AS/IFRS
• Coordinate with shared services team and review month-end and year-end closing.
• Manage the end-to-end financial reporting process ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Lead consolidation of USL group for both IND As and IFRS and closely work with Statutory and Group auditor on end-to-end financial delivery.

Statutory audit and board meeting deliverables

• Plan and drive statutory audit as per local regulations
• Co-ordinate with auditor across various legal entities annual audit
• Facilitate audit readiness and responses to audit observations
• Closely work on Board deliverables like Board deck etc.

Internal control, risk and assurance

• Partner with Internal Audit, Governance, and Group teams to address control gaps, if any.
• Implement process improvements to strengthen compliance and control frameworks.
• Enhance and document financial reporting processes.

Processes automation and central support

• Lead automation initiatives in reporting, including SAP HANA implementation.
• Collaborate with Tax team on tax provisioning, payments, and effective tax rate optimization.
• Support tax and secretarial teams in meeting regulatory and compliance obligations.
• Lead Integrated annual report preparation

Profile of candidate

• Chartered Accountant (CA) with 2-4 years of post-qualification experience in finance/accounting.
• Experience with Big 4 technical accounting advisory is preferred.

Must have

• Strong command of IFRS and Ind AS with hands-on technical accounting research experience.
• Ability to articulate complex accounting matters to non-finance stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Good to have

• Prior experience in statutory reporting for listed entities.
• Familiarity with SAP ERP systems.

Flexible Working Statement: Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported from day one.

Diversity statement: Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Ourambitionistocreatethebestperforming,mosttrustedandrespectedconsumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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