About the job

3-Month Contract | Potential to Transition to PermanentAbout the RoleWe 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 OpportunityYou 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 ResponsibilitiesBank-Wide Consolidation & Financial Fact BaseOwn 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 AnalysisDeliver 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 & MappingsDrive 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 & ControlsSupport 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 ForQualifications & ExperienceBachelor'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 SkillsAdvanced 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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