Finance Manager Control & Compliance

Job Reference: /CF/03-04/1135/13

Job Title: Finance Manager Control & Compliance

Location: New Century House, Ipswich

Salary: Competitive

Hours per week: Monday to Friday - 09:00 - 17:00 - 37. 5 hours per week

Business Overview

Atalian Servest and OCS have merged to create a new organisation, the OCS Group UK & Ireland. We are a leading facilities management company providing a range of both standalone and integrated services including cleaning, catering, security, technical services, energy management and compliance, front of house, landscaping, logistics, waste management and pest control services. The company has a turnover of £1.5bn and operates across the UK and Ireland with 50,000 colleagues delivering innovative award-winning services to the private and public sectors and supporting the local communities in which it operates.

Role Overview

We are currently recruiting for a Finance Manager Control & Compliance to join our passionate and driven team based at New Century House, Ipswich

To support the Financial Controller in achieving the objectives of the Central Finance team.

You will be responsible for leading a team covering a number of areas of the accounting process. These include maintaining the integrity of the balance sheet, minimising financial risks, liaising with external auditors throughout the audit process, completion of regulatory returns, enforcing control and compliance, ensuring the cash, asset and expenses functions are well managed, and other accounting and reporting responsibilities are completed to the expected standards, adhering to relevant policies.

Your focus will be to deliver service excellence to all internal stakeholders and to ensure that our timelines and strict key performance indicators are adhered to at all times whilst seeking continuous improvements to core finance processes and document procedures.

You will lead a small team ensuring that they are motivated, focused and driven to achieve results and that all personnel have clear deliverables that they must achieve for themselves as well as for the wider financial team.

Benefits

• Informal hybrid / flexible working arrangements
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Free fruit in our offices
• Employee Referral Scheme (if you refer a successful candidate to one of our vacancies)
• Wide range of retail discounts
• Regular social and charity events held in our offices
• Get involved in charity events in the local community

Wellbeing

• Discounted gym membership
• Eye test £25 voucher and up to £100 towards glasses
• Join our Cycle to Work scheme via salary sacrifice
• Access to “CHROMA”, our internal colleague-led diversity and inclusion community – join a committee or take part in our D&I initiatives and events
• Access to internal Mental Health First Aiders

Career development and recognition

• Immediate access to “Opportunity” our internal Learning and Development platform
• Required professional membership fees paid for
• Opportunity to win monthly Atalian Servest Superstar Awards
• Long service awards

Key Responsibilities:

• To manage and report on the underlying financial records for OCS Group UK Limited and other UK ensuring compliance to IFRS and internal policies.
• To assist the UK Financial Controller with the statutory reporting process including taking the lead for preparation of audit files and be a key point of liaison between external auditors and internal stakeholders including sector finance teams and contract managers.
• Take responsibility for all statutory disclosure requirements and ad hoc external regulatory reporting.
• Responsible for the production and submission of annual statutory accounts.
• To successfully manage the Control & Compliance finance team, to lead and develop the team promoting training and staff development for the team including liaising with training providers for team members undertaking professional qualification training.
• Drive continuous process improvement throughout all the central finance procedures adopting best practice.
• To ensure balance sheet accounts are fully reconciled to underlying records and risks are identified and mitigated on a timely basis.
• Ensure robustness and completeness of financial records so that quarterly declarations to Group are compliant.
• Manage the quarterly sector balance sheet review process.
• Lead reconciliation of intercompany accounts, ensuring P&L and balances sheet is reconciled for the Group on a monthly basis.
• To act as a key contact for completion and reporting to the Group Function.
• To validate accuracy and ensure timely submission of the quarterly VAT returns and CIS returns.
• To enforce asset and lease policy compliance and to improve upon the current process.
• To ensure carbon emissions reporting is efficient and timely for the central finance function.
• To liaise with the internal auditor to ensure cash management of catering sites is effective and efficient.
• To provide collaborative support to the shared services team leaders.
• To control the opening and closing of finance system ledgers at month end and year end.

About You:

• Applicants must have the right to work in the UK
• Graduate
• Drivers Licence required

Professional Qualifications required for the job-(particularly for compliance purposes or technical

requirements of the role)

• Qualified accountant ACA/ACCA/CIMA minimum

Experience previous experience desirable/essential for technical competence of the role