Roles and Responsibilities
- Lead the Group Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Controls, Insurance, Pensions and Financial Risk
- Lead on all periodic Statutory Reporting and Financial and Accounting Compliance
- Coordination and lead of Annual External Audit process
- Develop Control framework for NDA with a view to move to a controls based audit
- Coordination and lead on the production of the Annual Report & Accounts
- Production and maintenance of Group Accounting Policies and Controls
- Lead the Group Delegations Framework and decision/investment process/Business Cases
- Coordination of NAO Audit and NAO Value for Money investigations
- Development of Group Tax Framework
- Lead the financial processes for the NDA authority including budgeting, forecasting and actuals reporting
- Leadership and coordination of Group Financial Risk management and reporting
- Delivery of Groupwide Insurance framework, claims management tool, and renewals
- Delivery of Groupwide Pensions framework
Reporting & Performance:
- Coordinate all Statutory, Compliance and Government Reporting
- Coordinate Group Audit and Annual Report & Accounts
Value for Money & Internal Control:
- Maintenance & Development of Group Delegations Framework & Process
- NAO Audit, VfM PAC report coordination
- Internal Controls, Accounting Policies, Tax and Treasury, Insurance, Pensions
People & Stakeholders:
- Development of a One NDA Group Controllers Framework
- Development and resourcing of team
- Developing and building on stakeholder relationships with Subsidiary finance teams, BEIS, HMT, the NDA Audit Cttee, Board & Exec
Experience Required
- Qualified Accountant-significant experience as a Financial Controller in a large private sector group
- Sound technical IFRS, Tax and technical accounting knowledge and experience
- Empowering and Engaging leadership style – developing diverse teams and people with consideration to the geographical dispersion of the team
- Champion/business partner accounting & internal control to non-financial leaders across the group
- Knowledge and experience in designing and developing ERP systems and consolidation tools
- Experience in leading and developing Audit Strategies and group-wide audits, and working closely with Group Internal Audit
- Experience in developing and maintaining an effective group-wide delegations framework and investment appraisal and approval processes
- Experience in developing and maintaining an effective group-wide internal control framework including prevention and detection of Fraud
- Resilient and good at handling pressure. The individual will be required to handle long term critical matters alongside day to day urgent issues often balancing conflicting priorities and ambiguity.
- Excellent communication skills and able to provide clarity on complex matters
- Some experience of Public Sector accounting would be beneficial but not vital
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