Global Head of External Reporting

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services. With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

Group Head of External Reporting London, UK

Description

Reporting to the Deputy Head of FP&A in London, this is an exciting opportunity for an experienced finance professional to lead a niche high calibre 3 person team to drive the Group’s management reporting suite for 3 sets of stakeholders 1) The Board - Monthly Management Results; 2) Private Equity Shareholders – Equity Reporting; 3) Lenders – Lender reporting to debt covenants.

Although the group has a good reporting foundation, emphasis of this role is to lead the improved governance and control over reporting, improve the messaging and timeliness of delivery to our stakeholders, and to provide a more co-herent response to queries by centralising responses to all sets of stateholders.

Excellent communication skills are required as reviews are held with the c-suite within the organisation (CEO and Founder, CFO, COO, etc). The role will collaborate with the Group Head of FP&A, and with colleagues within FP&A (e.g. business partners), across functions (e.g. M&A team) and across the broader business (e.g. regional and country heads and finance leads).

An excellent knowledge of financials, accounting, analytics and attention to detail is key.

Job specification

Produce Monthly Results including:

• Prepare the monthly board results deck, leveraging OfficeConnect and inputs from various stakeholders (e.g. business partners)
• Own and maintain all proforma results reporting, including obtaining a good understanding of all upcoming acquisitions.
• Produce the monthly capital structure and liquidity reporting, leveraging inputs from Group Treasury
• Oversee the production of the monthly segment results and produce the executive summary over the results
• Oversee the Group’s monthly synergy reporting and prepare synergy metrics
• Prepare quarterly lender decks including commentary, and provide answers to questions from lender advisors (e.g. banking groups)
• Manage the Bonus Scorecard for the Group and for input to the Compensation Committee
• Provide timely answers to private equity shareholder and lender queries in well summarised formats
• Key contract for quality of earnings reviews managed by consulting firms
• Run ad hoc reporting and analysis for the Group Head of FP&A relating to c-suite queries
• Be a team player within FP&A to collectively win as a team

Lead the FP&A group management report development in Workday:

• Collaborate with the FP&A team to improve the reporting suite in Workday, the group’s new ERP system
• Increasingly leverage the use of Power BI dashboards
• Drive standardisation of reports across various systems leveraging standard hierarchies including account hierarchy, company hierarchies and product line hierarchies

Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance
• Good communication and writing skills to support commentary for senior executives
• Strong technical skills and experience working with large data sets
• Knowledge of Workday and Adaptive Planning (group management reporting system) an added advantage
• Attention to details
• Minimum 10 years Post Qualification experience
• Demonstrable Team Player in a Global Team
• Build excellent working relationships with a broad range of stakeholders
• Motivate and empower team members by building their capabilities
• Ensure reporting deliverables are produced and reviewed to a high standard and delivered in a timely manner
• Encourage a healthy working environment for the team

What you will get in return:

• A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business
• Competitive remuneration commensurate with skills and experience;
• Training and development opportunities
• A high level of visibility within a large organisation on an upwards trajectory
• Being part of a high performing team with a strong team culture

Additional information:

We are an equal opportunity employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. Any hiring decision are made on the basis of skills, qualifications and experiences.

We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share, but also by how we positively impact people, society and the planet.

For more information on our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) please visit https://theapexgroup.com/csr-policy/

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.