3-Month Contract | Potential to Transition to Permanent

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Consolidation & Reporting Specialist to join a high-performing finance team at a leading financial services organisation. This is a senior individual contributor role offering broad exposure across the business, with the opportunity to strengthen reporting quality, governance and consolidation outcomes within a centralised Finance Planning & Consolidation function.

This is initially a 3-month contract starting as soon as possible, with strong potential to transition into a permanent position for the right candidate.

The Opportunity

You will play a key role in maintaining the integrity of the organisation's financial fact base - ensuring one set of definitions and one reconciled, bank-wide view of financial performance. You'll partner closely with divisional finance teams across the business, working within a Finance function that acts as a control tower for reporting production, consolidation integrity and governance.

Key Responsibilities

Bank-Wide Consolidation & Financial Fact Base

Own the execution and quality of organisation-wide financial consolidation processes.
Ensure financial outputs are reconciled, consistent and aligned across business units.
Act as a quality gate for key finance datasets used in executive and governance forums.
Maintain the integrity and reliability of the organisation's financial fact base.

Management Reporting & Financial Analysis

Deliver recurring management reporting and support finance governance forums.
Prepare, reconcile and validate datasets used for executive decision-making.
Identify and investigate unusual movements, trends or reporting anomalies.
Support development of a coherent, organisation-wide financial narrative.

EPM Systems, Hierarchies & Mappings

Drive finance requirements relating to EPM structures, hierarchies, mappings and controls.
Partner with finance and technology teams to coordinate system and mapping changes.
Ensure consolidation requirements are accurately reflected within EPM platforms.
Reduce manual workarounds and improve overall efficiency of finance processes.

Process Improvement & Controls

Support the maturity and embedding of a new operating model, strengthening processes, controls and reporting discipline.
Improve process documentation and operational standards.
Identify automation opportunities and simplify manual, repetitive activities.
Contribute to continuous improvement and capability uplift within the broader team.

What We're Looking For

Qualifications & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Economics or a related discipline.
CA or CPA qualification.
Strong experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consolidation and management reporting.
Experience establishing or improving reporting standards, controls, governance, data quality and process discipline.
Experience supporting finance transformation, operating model change or process redesign is highly regarded.
Experience within banking or financial services.
Exposure to EPM platforms and financial consolidation systems.

Technical Skills

Advanced Excel capability, including complex data analysis and reconciliations.
Strong understanding of financial consolidation principles and reporting processes.
Experience working with financial hierarchies, mappings and finance system controls.
Demonstrated ability to improve processes through automation and simplification.

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