Financial Controller
- Recruiter
- The Co-operative
- Location
- Manchester
- Salary
- £35,000 - £40,000 + benefits & pension
- Posted
- 10 Sep 2014
- Closes
- 10 Oct 2014
- Job Title
- Financial Controller
- Category
- Consumer products / FMCG, Retail / Wholesale
- Experience Levels
- Qualified Accountant
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Pace Pension Scheme Financial Controller
Be a part of our in-house Pensions Accounting team - a unique experience to be part of a team that provides financial control for a cutting edge, award winning pension scheme – one of the biggest in the UK – we manage 9 pension’s funds altogether totalling £9bn, with the Pace Pension Scheme valued at £8bn - and based at our state-of-the-art HQ, in Manchester.
We’ve created a new accounting team, dedicated to managing the Pace scheme - in this newly created role, we’d look for you to bring your financial controls and accounting expertise to lead and manage the team in the delivery of Pace financial and investment accounting services, to ensure accounting practice for Pace meets legislative requirements and industry best practice standards.
In this role you will ….
- Manage Pace financial control and accounting
- Produce SORP compliant financial statements for Pace for review by the Pensions Finance Accountant
- Manage Pace investment accounting, including monitoring and maximising value from the accounting and other services performed by the custodian
- Provide financial accounting and investment reporting services to the Pace Trustee, ensuring legislative requirements and industry best practice standards are met
- Lead, coach and develop the Pace accounting team to improve performance and meet business objectives
- Ensure effective procedures are in place that fully meet all requirements and develop a continual improvement culture within the Pace accounting team
- Develop and maintain your knowledge of pensions accounting best practice, Group pensions policy, and legislation requirements
You won’t need experience of pensions to succeed in this role – but you will need the ability to learn and analyse the complexities and technicalities of this area, quickly. You will need proven experience and expertise in a finance function and detailed knowledge and practical understanding of financial accounting and controls. We’d expect you to be results focused, highly numerate with good problem solving skills – we’re looking for a ‘fresh pair of eyes’ to identify and support us in on-going improvements to our process and the way we work. Driven and confident, we’re looking for strong communication skills, tenacity, and the ability to proactively build good working relationships internally and with third party service providers.
We’d expect you to have a full accounting qualification – ACA/CIMA/ACCA. People management would be ideal, but not essential – we’d expect to see a passion for leading and coaching the team.
In return, you’ll be rewarded with an opportunity to provide a high quality service in a specialist, in-house team. You’ll receive a competitive benefits package and award winning pension. We believe in investing in the future both ethically and responsibly, by putting our customers and communities at the heart of every business decision we make, acting with integrity and trying to build a better society in everything we do – now, let us look at building your career too.
The Co-operative Group is changing; our new Group Purpose: “Championing a better way of doing business for you and your communities” represents a return to our roots; a turnaround that will see our business re-focus on its founding principles, and through commercial success, create real value and benefits for our members and the communities in which we operate.
For more information about Pace and The Co-Operative pensions, visit our website.
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