The Role
Leads Group-wide financial reporting, statutory accounts, external audits, tax compliance, financial controls, and governance. Provides technical accounting guidance and executive reporting, supports acquisitions, treasury, credit analysis, lender and covenant reporting, insurance renewals, and process improvements. Requires a qualified accountant with post-qualification experience under FRS 102, strong technical accounting knowledge, advanced Excel skills, and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders.
Summary Generated by Built In
- Hybrid working role - 3 days a week in our Edinburgh Park office and 2 from home
- On site car park
The Financial Reporting Manager is responsible for the delivery of accurate, timely and compliant financial reporting across the Group. The role leads statutory reporting, external audit and tax compliance activities, ensuring robust financial controls and governance standards are maintained. The role also supports strategic initiatives, including acquisitions, corporate reporting requirements and continuous improvements to financial processes and systems. This is a stand-alone role (it does not have direct reports.)
Key responsibilities:
- Lead the preparation and delivery of statutory accounts and external financial reporting requirements.
- Manage the year-end and interim audit process, acting as the primary contact for external auditors and ensuring timely completion of all audit requirements.
- Provide technical accounting guidance and ensure compliance with relevant accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain and continuously improve financial controls, policies and reporting processes across the Group.
- Prepare high-quality reporting and analysis for the Executive Team, Audit Committee and Board.
- Support acquisitions and business integration activity, ensuring alignment with Group reporting requirements.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and greater efficiency through systems, automation and best practice.
- Oversee corporation tax, VAT and PAYE compliance, ensuring all filing and reporting obligations are met accurately and within required deadlines.
- Assist with treasury management activities, including cash-flow forecasting, monitoring cash and liquidity, and supporting effective working capital management.
- Assist with client onboarding, ensuring analysis of new clients' credit worthiness is completed.
- Prepare lender reporting and covenant reporting in accordance with financing agreements.
- Manage and coordinate the annual insurance renewal process, ensuring appropriate levels of cover are maintained and supporting information is provided in a timely manner.
- Work closely with Finance and wider business stakeholders to provide financial insight and support informed decision-making.
What / who we're looking for:
- A qualified Accountant, with post-qualification experience in financial reporting and statutory accounting under the FRS 102 reporting framework.
- Experience managing external audits, tax compliance and corporate reporting requirements.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and an understanding of financial governance and controls.
- Advanced user of Excel and financial reporting and accounting systems.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial information and provide meaningful business insight.
- Able to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders and communicate confidently at all levels.
If you’re excited about this opportunity but don’t meet every requirement listed above, we still encourage you to apply. We value transferable experience and potential - and you might be exactly who we’re looking for!
Pulsant offers:
- A supportive work environment with a focus on career growth, learning and development, work life balance and well-being.
- A friendly, family-like atmosphere where almost half of the team have been with Pulsant for 5+ years.
- Benefits include 5% pension contributions, private healthcare, life assurance, cycle to work scheme, EV scheme, free breakfast and snacks, Udemy license and more.
- Leave benefits - in addition to your annual leave you get your birthday day off, annual wellbeing day and 2 x charity days per year. "}" data-trix-content-type="undefined" data-trix-id="40887" >
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About
Pulsant is a leading UK data centre and digital infrastructure platform which provides highly interconnected colocation and private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities nationwide. Our dedicated team of around 300 professionals (with an average tenure of 7 years), support around 700 clients across the UK. With 14 data centres in key regional locations from Edinburgh to Fareham and Manchester to Newcastle, all interconnected by a 400Gbps capable network, it’s the UK’s most geographically diverse platform. Pulsant’s platformEDGE ™ infrastructure is secure, sovereign, high speed and low-latency, covering around 97 per cent of UK populations within five milliseconds.
Skills Required
- Qualified Accountant
- Post-qualification experience in financial reporting and statutory accounting under the FRS 102 reporting framework
- Experience managing external audits
- Experience with tax compliance and corporate reporting requirements
- Strong technical accounting knowledge
- Understanding of financial governance and controls
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with financial reporting and accounting systems
- Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret complex financial information
- Ability to build effective internal and external stakeholder relationships
- Ability to communicate confidently at all levels
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The Company
What We Do
Pulsant is the UK’s premier digital edge infrastructure company providing next-generation cloud, colocation and connectivity services. With a network of 12 strategically located edge data centres, Pulsant brings the advances of edge computing within reach of 95 per cent of the UK population. Founded 27 years ago, with a mission to help businesses prosper, Pulsant delivers the transformational high-speed, high-bandwidth, low latency advances of edge computing, processing data close to the people and machines that generate and use it. Regional enterprises and service providers across the UK use Pulsant’s edge infrastructure platform to build, connect and deploy the applications they need to innovate and grow. Pulsant’s highly resilient, next-generation edge infrastructure platform offers unrivalled connectivity with the major global cloud providers. Its network of data centres is interconnected through a low latency network fabric delivering access to connectivity and compute services across the UK and beyond. Headquartered in Maidenhead and with over 1,200 clients and multiple accreditations, including ISO27001 and PCI DSS, Pulsant has more experience in working with organisations to achieve their digital ambitions through edge infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments than any other UK company
