Group finance manager in environmental services

The RSK Group, a leading privately owned environmental, engineering and technical services business, is seeking a technically strong Group Finance Manager to play a key role within its Group Finance function. Following sustained growth, RSK has become one of the UK's largest environmental and engineering services groups, generating annual revenues of approximately £2.5 billion.

• Own the Group consolidation process, ensuring timely, accurate reporting and strong financial control across a complex multi-entity organisation.
• Drive continuous improvement in consolidation, governance and reporting, acting as the Group’s subject matter expert.
• Partner with finance leaders to strengthen reporting disciplines, challenge submissions and ensure consistency across the Group.
• Lead the implementation of future consolidation and reporting solutions to support the Group’s continued growth.
• Lead the delivery of the Group’s annual statutory financial statements and associated reporting requirements
• Own significant accounting judgements and reporting matters, ensuring conclusions are supported by appropriate technical analysis and robust documentation
• Act as a key point of contact for the external auditors, advisers and internal stakeholders on Group reporting matters
• Continuously improve the statutory reporting process, strengthening quality, control, efficiency and audit readiness
• Lead the delivery of the Group external audit programme, overseeing approximately 80 material components and 100+ non-material entities, ensuring timely completion and high-quality outcomes.
• Act as the primary relationship manager for external auditors, coordinating stakeholders across Group Finance, divisional teams, component auditors and advisers.
• Drive audit planning, governance and execution, proactively managing risks, dependencies and the resolution of significant audit, accounting and reporting matters.
• Strengthen audit readiness, reporting discipline and programme efficiency, while partnering with the Group Financial Controller and CFO on key judgements, governance and Audit Committee reporting.
• Act as a trusted technical accounting adviser to the Group Financial Controller, CFO and wider finance community, assessing complex, judgemental and non-routine accounting matters
• Author and present clear technical accounting papers supporting key conclusions
• Develop and maintain Group accounting policies, reporting guidance and financial control frameworks
• Manage the Group's assessment and implementation of significant changes to UK GAAP, including the new revenue recognition and lease accounting requirements under FRS 102
• Monitor emerging accounting developments and assess their implications for the Group
• Provide leadership across Group financial reporting processes within a relatively flat organisational structure
• Build strong relationships with divisional finance directors, financial controllers and finance teams across the Group
• Influence stakeholders at all levels to drive accountability, consistency and continuous improvement

• Trained within a Big Four or leading mid-tier accountancy practice.
• ACA or ACCA qualified, or an equivalent recognised professional accounting qualification, with strong post-qualification experience taking ownership of, or playing a leading role in, a group consolidation process within a large, complex and acquisitive group structure, with multiple legal entities, reporting teams and stakeholders
• Experience acting as the primary day-to-day contact for external auditors or leading significant elements of a group audit
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and experience of practical application of complex accounting issues.
• Experience of preparing and presenting technical accounting papers supporting significant accounting judgements and conclusions
• Ability to organise and manage a varied workload across technical accounting, consolidation, audit, compliance and transformation activities, effectively prioritising resources to meet competing deadlines and a demonstrable track record of delivering high-quality outputs within demanding reporting timetable
• Experience building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders at senior levels and using influence to deliver outcomes in environments where direct line management authority is limited
• Будет плюсом: Acquisition accounting and business-combination experience; Experience implementing consolidation, reporting or finance systems; Experience leading process-improvement or finance-transformation initiatives; Exposure to corporate transactions, restructuring activities or complex reporting environments; Knowledge of construction, consultancy, engineering, environmental services or another project-led industry

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• Life Assurence
• Flexible Benefits Programme
• Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.