Head of Group Financial Reporting

Head of Group Financial Reporting

Role: Head of Group Financial Reporting
Engagement: 2 Moth contract with potential to extend
Location: UK wide with travel to site when required

Overview

We are supporting a leading Insurance and Financial Services organisation in the search for an experienced Head of Group Financial Reporting to provide leadership during a critical reporting period. The successful candidate will support Half–Year (HY) Reporting, Financial & Regulatory (F&R) reporting activities, and preparation for the Q3 reporting cycle.

This senior contract opportunity requires a highly experienced finance leader with deep technical accounting expertise, strong stakeholder management capabilities, and a proven track record delivering high–quality reporting within a regulated financial services environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Group Financial Reporting activities across Half–Year reporting, Financial & Regulatory reporting requirements, and Q3 preparation.
• Provide technical accounting oversight and guidance on complex accounting and reporting matters.
• Review, challenge and approve key accounting judgements, assumptions and disclosures.
• Ensure the accuracy, quality and timeliness of all regulatory, statutory and management reporting deliverables.
• Partner closely with Finance, Actuarial, Risk and Executive stakeholders to ensure alignment across reporting outputs.
• Manage reporting governance and maintain an effective control environment throughout the reporting cycle.
• Support executive decision–making through the provision of robust financial insight and analysis.
• Drive reporting improvements and contribute to reporting transformation initiatives where required.
• Oversee consolidation processes and support enhancements to reporting architecture and operating models.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
• Significant Financial Services experience, ideally within Life Insurance, Pensions or a broader Insurance environment.
• Extensive experience leading statutory, regulatory and management reporting functions.
• Exceptional technical accounting knowledge and understanding of reporting governance frameworks.
• Proven ability to operate at senior leadership level and influence executive stakeholders.
• Strong track record of managing critical reporting cycles and delivering under tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable

• Experience working within reporting change or finance transformation programmes.
• Exposure to consolidation architecture and reporting process optimisation.
• Strong understanding of regulatory reporting obligations within insurance and pensions organisations.
• Experience collaborating with actuarial teams and interpreting actuarial inputs into financial reporting outputs.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG – The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.