Finance Manager - Compliance (12 Month FTC)

Location: Commutable distance to Winchester

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Total Package

* Up to £71k base salary

* 10% Bonus

* 6% pension contribution

* Private Medical

* 25 days annual leave

* Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance

* Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture

The Finance Manager, reporting to the Head of Finance Compliance & Control, is responsible for managing regulatory accounting processes, preparing external reports, and handling complex accounting tasks. Key duties include producing regulatory accounts, supporting external audits, and providing technical accounting guidance.

The Role

• Own and manage the regulatory accounting process, working with the commercial, operational and record to close finance teams, to ensure that transactions can be segmented and allocations undertaken to enable the production of regulatory accounts.

• Produce the supporting analysis/evidence, assisted by the Compliance Analyst, in line with the RAPM (Regulatory Accounting Principles and Methodologies), ensuring clean audit reports and filing in line with relevant deadlines.

• Undertake regular review of the RAPM as required, including stakeholder management of the Adjudicator.

• In conjunction with the Head of FC&C and Finance Manager- Reporting, manage the external audits, including management of audit / stakeholder relationships including appointed external auditors, Adjudicator, the Audit and Risk Committee and any Appointed Accountants as required ensuring clean audit reports and filing in line with relevant deadlines.

• Undertake annual review of the effectiveness of the Internal Regulatory Accounts Control Framework. In conjunction with the wider finance team ensure business changes are enacted so as to maintain the integrity of the regulatory reporting.

• Keep up to date with changes in generally accepted accounting principles and external audit requirements, ensuring Arqiva's RAPM policies are compliant. Support the Head of FC&C in the provision of pro-active technical financial accounting guidance, within the context of the impact to Regulatory Accounts as well as internal and external reporting, in order to advise the business in structuring compliant commercial agreements for the group.

• Regular review of complex contracts and judgement areas to ensure appropriate accounting and provisioning.

• Undertake ad hoc special accounting projects in support of the groups strategic plans as required, with a view to potential impacts on the Regulated Accounts

The Person

• Strong track record of technical accounting and financial control including engagement with external auditors

• Extensive knowledge of current technical accounting principles including the accounting for complex contracts

• Significant knowledge and use of Microsoft Office particularly Excel

• Business analytics and report writing capabilities and experience at working at board level and managing external stakeholder relationships

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA)

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast and the UK's leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work