With 6 regional finance managers as direct reports, the successful candidate will report directly to the Group CFO while maintaining close relationships with Divisional Managing Directors, responsible for ensuring appropriate financial controls are applied throughout the business.
The purpose of this role is to manage the day-to-day activities of the accounting functions across various jurisdictions to include the production of periodic financial reports, maintenance improvement of their newly implemented system, and a comprehensive set of controls and budgets designed to mitigate risk, enhance the accuracy of the company's reported financial results.
The successful candidate will we be a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or ACMA) with 5-10 years PQE with strong exposure to multi-currency, complex intercompany transactions with experience working with emerging markets being an advantage.
Part of Canada Life's 2nd Line of Defence, the Enterprise Risk Management Team support the Chief Risk Officer and Head of Enterprise Risk Management in providing Enterprise Risk expertise, challenge and oversight to the business and shared service units within the UK Group.
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