Senior Finance Manager - External Reporting

greene king; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK hospitality company in California is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to lead its finance team focusing on external reporting and compliance. Your responsibilities include managing statutory reporting, collaborating with auditors, and setting accounting policies. Ideal candidates should be qualified accountants with leadership skills and excellent communication abilities. The role offers a competitive salary, training opportunities, and various employee discounts. Join us in driving excellence in financial management while being part of a dynamic team.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Career development opportunities

Employee discounts

Wagestream access

Free employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Proven technical experience in financial reporting and compliance.
• Ability to motivate and lead teams across a matrix structure.
• Strong communication skills to present technical items simply.

Responsibilities

• Lead a finance team responsible for technical and statutory reporting.
• Drive compliance across the broader finance function.
• Prioritize workload to align with team goals and drive value.

Skills

Leadership

Technical accounting

Excellent communication

Relationship building

Education

Qualified accountant

Job description

Senior Finance Manager - External Reporting

As a Senior Finance Manager - External Reporting your role will be to lead a finance team and be responsible for all technical and statutory aspects of Greene King’s financial reporting and compliance. This role has a focus on external reporting and includes Statutory Reporting, delivery of the external audit, technical accounting and judgements and CKA reporting.

The Corporate and Strategic Finance team partners with the CEO, CFO, COO and CXO and their respective teams. The team consists of high-performing finance professionals who, in addition to providing technical expertise and setting policy in the fields of Tax, Treasury and External reporting, support and drive the business in Property, Procurement, Operational Excellence and strategic projects, whilst business partnering the Corporate Functions. The overall team is further responsible for setting the Group planning agenda and strategic plan and driving the results to balance the needs of the business and the shareholder.

Company Description

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.

Additional Information

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career.
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

Qualifications

Your role as a Senior Finance Manager - External Reporting

• To lead a finance team and be responsible for all technical and statutory aspects of Greene King’s financial reporting and compliance. This role has a focus on external reporting and includes Statutory Reporting, delivery of the external audit, technical accounting and judgements and reporting to the group’s parent.
• You will need to have an Enterprise mindset and be outward looking to promote the team’s work and educate across Greene King, whilst driving continuous improvement and efficiency across the team.
• Take ownership and lead on all areas of technical accounting, draw conclusions, agree the position with external auditors and implement agreed accounting positions.
• Lead the review and setting of accounting policies and drive compliance across the wider finance function, and across the business where appropriate.
• Prioritise workload and allocate accordingly to drive value-add activity, triaging requests as appropriate and setting the agenda to the team.

What you’ll bring...

• Qualified accountant, with proven technical experience.
• A strong and inspirational leader, having people management skills capable of motivating, leading and influencing teams both under direct control, through the Centre of Excellence and across a matrix structure.
• Able to form and develop relationships across the wider Greene King business, CKA and with advisors.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, able to explain and present technical items in simple ways.
• Ability to flex with changing priorities.