Head of Finance - 6 month FTC

Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting

• Quarterly reporting to the client, in line with requirements.
• Production of accurate statutory accounts.
• Interact with actuarial and tax as necessary as part of this role.
• Ensure that controls and reconciliations are appropriate, monitored and developed on an ongoing basis and consistently look to proactively review and improve. Have a detailed understanding of all processes and the dependencies / impact with the Finance team.

SII reporting

• Provide a key role in the production of the SII quarterly returns (QRTs) and annual returns (QRTs, SFCR, RSR).

Finance Ops

• Oversight and day to day management of finance ops team manager.
• Ensure team remains appropriately resourced.
• Interaction with other operational teams as necessary.

Programme Initiatives

• Support implementation of relevant programmes from a finance perspective.
• Act as an SME where applicable on onboarding programmes of work.

Business Partnering

• Act as the key business partner point of contact in support of the annual budget cycle and business plan activity and for undertaking forecasting as required.
• Play a key role in supporting the financial reporting integration with Clients.
• Build relationships with key personnel within the Client base to support this process.

BAU

• Daily BAU operational activities.
• Project migration activities in line with BAU.
• Effective organization - Respond positively to the goals of the team and actively add to the success of the Finance Department.
• Service delivery - ensuring they meets client expectation in line with Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
• Migrate processes and manage the relationship with Team India for processes owned that are carried out offshore.

Staff Management and Development

• Staff PDR's, training & development to ensure regular documented reviews of individual performance, including staff 1:1 meetings, where appropriate, and oversee the teams process in respect of quality and productivity monitoring (applies AOM methodology where applicable).
• Relevant staff are trained and competent.
• Accountable for ensuring that Managers are aware of how their individual objectives link to Corporate Goals, documents action plans to achieve own and managers objectives.
• Accountable for identifying Learning and Development needs for direct reports, documents requirements and helps facilitate training.
• Accountable for assessing the impact of Learning and Development on direct reports ensuring learning is evaluated.

Carries out any other duties which are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed

Randstad Financial & Professional encourage applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Randstad Financial & Professional acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003