Job Opportunity: Senior Manager, Financial Reporting
The role of Senior Manager, Financial Reporting is pivotal in driving the success of our organization. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of accurate and timely financial statements, coordinating client audits, and ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) across the investment funds managed by SEI EMEA.
This position plays a crucial role in shaping the strategic direction of our organization. You will be responsible for designing, evolving, and enhancing the Financial Reporting operating model, fostering an efficient, consistent, risk-mitigating control environment across all financial reporting teams.
Collaboration with fund accounting and other SEI functions is essential. This role is senior, client-facing, and acts as the voice of SEI's Financial Reporting function with our clients and their auditors.
Key Responsibilities:
* Lead a function regionally across EMEA accountable for tasks such as SME, Client Financial Statement Production & Audits, Execution of the financial reporting process controls, Conducting internal reviews and managing external reviews, Quality Control for financial statements, Review and approve workbooks for new entity set up including review of the first set of financial statements.
* Ensure departmental procedures are maintained.
* Develop and manage client relationships always ensuring alignment with our client service excellence culture.
* Contribute Financial Statement technical expertise support to support the sales process.
* Continuous Process Improvement and Efficiency: Ongoing review of operating model identify enhancements and process improvements and deploy solutions.
* Regulatory Reporting: Responsible for ensuring adherence to Irish Financial Regulatory filings.
* People Management: Conduct performance appraisals, monthly one on ones, provide career pathing and training ensuring team development. Ensure succession planning is in place and operational within department through identification and development of high potential personnel.
Requirements:
* 15+ years' experience within a financial reporting team within funds OR audit of fund clients in an audit firm.
* Experience in a strategic or change management position.
* ACA qualified.
* In-depth knowledge of the Funds industry.
* In-Depth knowledge of the Microsoft suite.
* Excellent communication skills (oral and written).
* Strategic thinker comfortable with a leadership role.
* Ability to implement and evaluate strategies for improving operational excellence.
* Demonstrable relationship building skills both internally and externally and across all levels.
* Team player.
* Solutions focused with strong attention to detail.
Benefits:
* Healthcare for yourself your spouse and any dependents up to the age of 18 years.
* Pension Scheme.
* Tax Saver Travel Benefits.
* Bike to Work Scheme.
* On-site Gym with Fitness Classes and 1:1 PT Sessions.
* Club Supplement.
* Education Assistance.
* Competitive Family & Annual Leave Entitlements as well as 2 Paid Volunteer Days per year.
* Life Assurance.
* Annual Employee Share Participation Scheme.
About Us:
We recognize that our people are our most valuable asset and are invested in your success. We know that a healthy happy and motivated workforce is key to our continued growth. We are focused on ensuring a healthy work-life balance and offer our employees benefits which include private medical care for you and your family educational assistance scheme and actively encourage work life balance.