Mintel is a global leader in market intelligence, providing market research, analysis, and insights to help businesses make better decisions. Our clients rely on us to provide reliable and actionable data that drives their business strategy and growth.
Job Overview
You will play a key role in leading the preparation, review, and analysis of subsidiary management accounts across Mintel’s global operations.
This role is heavily focused on financial reporting, performance analysis, and ensuring consistency and quality of outputs across regions. You will take ownership of EMEA reporting while working closely with AMER and APAC finance teams to align reporting standards, drive best practice, and deliver clear, insightful financial information to senior stakeholders.
You will also work closely with Mintel’s Malaysia Shared Services (MYSS) finance team, ensuring alignment across reporting, processes, and financial delivery, while supporting the efficient execution of global finance operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead the preparation and review of monthly subsidiary management accounts, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and high-quality commentary across EMEA entities
- Own the production and ongoing development of management reporting packs and Power BI dashboards, providing stakeholders with clear visibility of financial performance
- Take ownership of EMEA financial reporting, acting as the key contact for regional finance teams and ensuring timely and consistent delivery of results
- Partner with AMER, APAC, and Mintel’s Malaysia Shared Services (MYSS) finance teams to ensure global consistency in reporting, including alignment of methodologies, policies, and presentation of financial information
- Deliver meaningful analysis of financial performance, including variance analysis (actual vs budget/forecast), trends, and key business drivers
- Proactively identify and escalate overspends or key risks, working with budget owners to understand drivers and corrective action
- Support the month-end close process, with a focus on ensuring the quality and integrity of reported numbers rather than transactional processing
- Support budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment between actual performance and forward-looking assumptions
- Own key technical accounting and reporting matters, ensuring compliance with FRS102 and internal policies
- Support the year-end audit process, particularly in relation to group reporting and consolidated outputs
- Provide oversight and support on direct and indirect tax matters (e.g. corporate tax, VAT), working with internal teams and external advisors as required
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with strong post‑qualification experience in a group reporting or financial accounting role
- Proven experience preparing and reviewing management accounts across multiple entities or regions
- Experience working with Power BI or similar reporting tools, delivering dashboards and data-driven insights
- Excellent analytical capability, with the ability to translate financial data into clear insights and commentary
- Experience working across international teams, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders
- Strong knowledge of accounting standards (FRS102) and Companies House financial reporting requirements
- Experience of month-end close and reporting cycles, with a focus on quality and accuracy of outputs
- Systems experience (e.g. NetSuite) and proficiency in Excel
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to work to tight deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders and non-finance teams
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Skills Required
- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with strong post-qualification group reporting or financial accounting experience
- Proven experience preparing and reviewing management accounts across multiple entities or regions
- Experience working with Power BI or similar reporting tools, delivering dashboards and data-driven insights
- Strong knowledge of accounting standards (FRS102) and Companies House financial reporting requirements
- Experience of month-end close and reporting cycles, with focus on quality and accuracy
- Systems experience (e.g., NetSuite) and proficiency in Excel
- Excellent analytical capability, able to translate financial data into clear insights and commentary
- Experience working across international teams with ability to influence and align stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, confident engaging senior stakeholders and non-finance teams
What We Do
Market Intelligence is what sets us apart and what defines us as a brand – literally in fact: when the company was founded in 1972 it took its name from an amalgamation of the two words. We have been defining and refining the Market Intelligence Mix ever since, to offer our clients a unique perspective on the consumer landscape ahead and a clear roadmap with which to navigate it. So what goes into the market intelligence mix? MARKET RESEARCH is not the only thing we do, but it is right at the core of our business. The vast range of primary research we carry out and commission is the bedrock of our market intelligence, creating data series we can assess incrementally over the long term to track trends and forecast the future. MARKET ANALYSIS is the second key element of the market intelligence mix. Our specialist team of market analysts scours the globe for trade, industry and government data, which our statisticians then integrate into meaningful sizing models and future value forecasts for thousands of sectors worldwide. PRODUCT INTELLIGENCE adds micro-level relevance to the macro context of our market analysis, bringing our clients real-world examples of the launches and goods that are driving the numbers. COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE is the fourth pillar of our work, keeping our clients abreast of their rivals’ strategies, communications and results, to give them the understanding they need to choose the right response to gain or maintain that crucial competitive edge. The magic happens when we pull them all together. Trend analysts, category specialists, systems developers, dedicated account teams and client servicing staff work together to provide our clients with understanding as well as knowledge. That’s our Market Intelligence. That’s how we help businesses grow. It’s why we’re the leaders in it.
