Director of Group Finance
Marylebone, London
£110,000-£120,000 + Bonus (to 25%)
As the Director of Group Finance, you'll be a member of our global senior leadership team and play a key role within our business. We're a complex, truly global organisation backed by private equity, and working in Group finance is often challenging, but never dull! This job offers a high level of engagement with senior stakeholders (including the CEO, CFO and our Private Equity owners), and the opportunity to be involved in a wide variety of global projects.
With direct management responsibility for a number of members of the Group Senior Finance team, key responsibilities of the job include:
- Driving the quarterly forecasting and budgeting process, appropriately challenging divisional submissions through applying an analytical lens to numbers
- Overseeing production of monthly management accounts and ensuring the FP&A team are appropriately interrogating the numbers with divisional finance
- The year end close process and production of group consolidated accounts, as well as oversight of all divisional statutory reporting and preparation for Audit Committee
- Leading a programme of improvement in financial controls across the group
- Oversight of tax and treasury matters, including supporting the Head of Tax in ensuring tax structuring is optimal and providing support in driving through any required structuring projects
- Supporting Treasurer with banking relationships
- Providing senior sponsorship of systems improvement projects
Applicants should certainly be qualified, and have trained in a leading accountancy practice (ideally Big Four). You'll need to have had experience within a Group function in a reasonably large and complex business, probably at Controller level but perhaps as a head of external reporting or Group FP&A. You'll have the initiative to come up with ideas for improvement, and the confidence and energy to drive them through. It's a job where you can really make a difference.
About Study Group
Study Group is one of the world’s largest international education and training organisations. Every year over 77,000 students from more than 170 countries choose to study with Study Group. We invest in international students’ futures and enhance their prospects by focusing on the way they learn as well as the qualifications they achieve.
Our ethos is best summed up by the phrase "Students First". The success and well-being of our students is at the heart of everything we do, and it's what drives us to excel.