Job Description

You will provide a second line of defense over the numbers we report in our highest risk areas of financial reporting. This will give a huge breadth of experience encompassing acquisitions and other transactions, any new accounting standards, and complex areas such as tax and treasury. 

The role is ideally suited to a recently qualified accountant with strong technical knowledge looking to use their auditing background in industry.  Responsibility for implementation and adherence to Group accounting policies is only part of it; the team play a key part in:

• Delivering the Groups external results and internal month end processes
• Developing a robust control framework while driving excellent data quality for decision making
• Balance sheet review and risk management
• Cash flow forecasting and management of capital expenditure
• Audit relationship management and statutory obligation compliance
• Management and identification of accounting risk and opportunity
• Providing accounting guidance to regional finance teams
• Accounting for complex areas and transactions
• Understand the financial reporting risks facing Experian, along with the strength of existing processes to mitigate those risks
• Assess and quantify the impact of new accounting standards on the Group
• Assist in the delivery of assurance procedures to reduce the risk of accounting and financial reporting issues arising
• Develop and maintain a strong technical expertise, assisting regional finance teams with complex areas of accounting
• Update guidance for new accounting issues across the Group
• Review of external disclosures in the Group’s financial statements to ensure their accuracy
• Assist in the review of accounting for acquisitions and other complex transactions
• Form part of the second line of defense over work from specialists, assisting in the review of numbers from tax, pensions, treasury etc.
• Form part of the quality control process over accounting papers and audit committee documents

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

We're ideally looking for a candidate who is Degree qualified with an appropriate professional qualification (ACA etc.)

• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Experience of audit and statutory processes preferred
• Highly numerate with ability to quickly understand and challenge complex work papers
• Professional skepticism with an ability to detect weaknesses in explanations and tenacity to track down an answer
• Excellent communicator – both written and verbal
• Strong interpersonal skills – ability to form and leverage relationships
• Advanced level skills in Excel required.