delivery manager Birmingham, England
Job description
Salary : Up to £60,000 depending on experience, plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more!
Job Type : Permanent
Closing Date : 4 August 2023
Location : Wythall, Edinburgh or Telford. This is a hybrid role with 2-3 days per week in the office and time spent at home.
Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Financial Reporting Delivery Manager join our Financial Reporting team.
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.
We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 13 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£310 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.
The Role
In this role you will assist in the planning and execution of each quarterly valuation cycle. You will be a keen problem solver and is able to demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate with various stakeholders. The successful applicant will develop an understanding of core Life Finance processes and deliveries at a time of significant change. This role brings a great opportunity to enhance your personal network, as you will be working closely with teams across the whole of life finance and group reporting. We will consider flexible working patterns.
- Delivery of the reporting requirements, detailed plans and controls for each quarter’s financial reporting processes, working in conjunction with the business to continuously identify and implement improvements and accelerated processes in support of a more efficient reporting close process.
- To liaise with all business areas to ensure all reporting plans represent current business practices and to ensure that all new functionality and process change delivered from projects is correctly reflected in the plan.
- To also ensure that all handoffs between teams within Finance and external to Finance, including third party providers are identified, documented and agreed and quality criteria is also defined.
- To liaise with relevant business areas to ensure deliverables and timescales are understood and incorporated into Life Finance reporting processes.
- To project manage the delivery of the all the annual, quarterly, half year and year-end financial reporting results by ensuring that robust monitoring, issue resolution and escalation processes are in place. This will include running daily and weekly meetings, production of Issue Logs, provide weekly status reports to management and weekly Dashboards for all key stakeholders.
- To ensure a robust process for lessons learned post each reporting period to ensure issues identified during the reporting period are captured and corrective actions agreed and implemented prior to the next reporting period.
- Experience of Life Company Finance functions, particularly accounting processes.
- Strong project management experience.
- Proactive and able to drive change.
Desirable
- Able to influence others
- Enjoy challenging objectives and achieving them
- Excellent organisation and facilitation skills
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
Find out more about #LifeAtPhoenix
- Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
- Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/talk-to-us
