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Lead the statutory reporting function for multiple group entities, ensuring full compliance with IFRS. You are accountable for accurate and timely financial statements, robust internal controls, and seamless period-end close processes. In this role, you will be responsible for following the Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence. Your specific risk responsibilities include developing and leading a high-performing team, creating an environment for success by setting direction and coaching them to succeed through inspiring conversations every day, initiating and designing continuous improvement initiatives to drive performance within your teams, overseeing period-end close to ensure all financial transactions are accounted for correctly, ensuring all internal financial controls are operated effectively, taking remedial action as required, driving a culture of continuous improvement, managing team members through performance reviews, succession planning, recruitment, and leadership, preparing and presenting statutory financial statements for Group Companies, working with auditors and external consultants for its seamless delivery, ensuring inter-company transactions are accounted correctly and intercompany balances are matched and reconciled, providing analysis and commentary to support group Operations HFM periodic submission, and supporting internal and external audits by reviewing information requests and the responses to these requests. You will need to work closely with the Finance Controller, UK Pensions Finance Manager, International business units and their support partner, External & Stat Auditors, and UK Tax Dept. Your operational skills should include expertise in Financial Control & IFRS, managing multiple Finance teams independently, understanding financial statements, working in or closely with Statutory reporting teams, understanding SLAs, being a Chartered Accountant, having experience in change management and project management, working for or having significant exposure to Big 4 accounting firms, having conceptual application in a business context, managing stakeholders and operations, having expertise in IFRS, statutory reporting, and compliance, proficiency in financial statement preparation and consolidation, experience with internal controls and SOX compliance, familiarity with audit processes internal and external. At Tesco, you will be part of a team that is committed to providing the best for you, offering a unique, differentiated, market-competitive reward package based on the current industry practices for all the work you put into serving customers, communities, and the planet. Total Rewards offered at Tesco are determined by four principles - simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. You will have the opportunity to earn additional compensation bonus based on performance, paid annually. You are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays as per the company's policy. Tesco enables you to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF in addition to statutory retirement benefits. Health and wellness programs are promoted at Tesco, including insurance for you and your family, mental health support, financial coaching, salary advances, and a Save As You Earn (SAYE) programme. The physical wellbeing is also encouraged with facilities such as a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, and indoor games, promoting a healthier lifestyle. Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team that serves customers, communities, and the planet every day across markets. The goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardizing processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering colleagues to do more for customers. Established in 2017, Tesco Business Solutions (TBS) has evolved into a global, purpose-driven solutions-focused organization committed to driving scale at speed and delivering value to the Tesco Group through the power of decision science. TBS supports markets and business units across four locations in the UK, India, Hungary, and the Republic of Ireland, aiming to create impactful outcomes that shape the future of the business and become the partner of choice for talent, transformation, and value creation.,

The role at Tesco India in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India is for a Statutory Reporting Lead for multiple group entities, with a focus on ensuring full compliance with IFRS. The position involves accountability for accurate and timely financial statements, robust internal controls, and seamless period-end close processes. Key responsibilities include developing and leading a high-performing team, initiating continuous improvement initiatives, overseeing period-end close, ensuring effective internal financial controls, completing balance sheet reconciliations, driving a culture of continuous improvement, managing team members, preparing and presenting statutory financial statements, coordinating inter-company transactions, providing analysis and commentary for group operations, supporting audits, and upholding the Business Code of Conduct. As the Statutory Reporting Lead, you will collaborate with various teams and individuals both within and outside Tesco, such as the Finance Controller, Finance Manager, auditors, and external consultants. The role requires operational skills in financial control and IFRS, experience in managing finance teams, understanding financial statements, working with statutory reporting teams, knowledge of SLAs, change management, project management, stakeholder management, operations management, expertise in IFRS, statutory reporting, compliance, financial statement preparation, consolidation, internal controls, SOX compliance, and audit processes. The ideal candidate will have a Chartered Accountant qualification and previous experience in or exposure to Big 4 accounting firms. Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to serving customers, communities, and the planet by standardizing processes, delivering cost savings, leveraging technological solutions, and empowering colleagues. Established in 2004, Tesco in Bengaluru focuses on enabling standardization and building central capabilities to enhance customer experiences globally. The Tesco Business Solutions (TBS), established in 2017, strives to drive scale, deliver value, and support markets and business units globally. With a team of over 4,400 skilled professionals, TBS contributes to innovation, agility, and value creation within the Tesco Group. If you meet the qualifications and are interested in leading statutory reporting activities for multiple group entities at Tesco in Bengaluru, apply by 31-Jul-2025.,