Job Description

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Financial Control is a key function within our Enabling Functions Finance team. The team is split to support the different service lines with Deloitte. The primary function of the team is to ensure our reported figures have integrity and are a true and fair reflection of the financial position of the business. Accordingly, the team is responsible for the coordination and successful completion of the month end close and ensuring appropriate financial controls being in place. The team provide advice to the business on the application and implementation of accounting policies, procedures, standards, and controls.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It\'s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

We are looking for a highly skilled Finance professional to join our team of Financial Controllers.

Working closely with the Business and our Business Finance team, you will gain a high level of understanding of opportunities and challenges within the business in order to deliver effective financial controls and technical advice, to strengthen the internal financial control environment and enable better decision making. For the role to be effective you will need to build strong relationships with all stakeholders based on trust and impact.

• Supporting the month end financial close process, reviewing and investigating account balances and preparing associated adjustments or journals
• Owning key processes and standards across Financial Control to drive ongoing improvement and consistent best practice
• Lead on preparing balance sheet reconciliation and issue resolution
• Liaising and collaborating with other members of the internal finance team and the business, including Financial Control team in Global Finance Services (GFS)
• Develop trust and build strong relationships with practitioners, and be a key point of contact on financial control matters
• Work effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
• Financial & system housekeeping activities to maintain strong financial controls
• Supporting external audit process and managing queries from our external auditors
• Ad hoc analysis and investigation

Connect to your skills and professional experience

You will be able to build solid relationships with different stakeholders and possess strong financial controls experience, your questioning mind will offer the opportunity to assess existing processes and look for efficiencies and improvements.

Ideally, candidates will have most or all of the below experience, although we will also consider exceptional candidates who do not meet all of the below criteria:

• Demonstrates a strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy in their work
• Proactive and has a continuous process improvement mindset
• Relevant accounting experience within a finance department
• Currently studying towards or planning to undertake a recognised Accounting qualification
• An interest in Management Accounting and a desire to progress with a career in Finance
• Positive can-do approach, with a passion for personal development and improvement
• Inquisitive with aptitude for problem solving
• Ability to work calmly and efficiently under deadline pressures, e.g. month end, year-end
• Ability to work cross-functionally in a team environment as well as work independently with self-direction
• Ability to build collaborative working relationships with stakeholders
• Experience in a financial controller role or similar is preferred but not essential
• Experience of working in a professional services organisation is preferred but not essential
• Experience of using SAP preferred but not essential

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you\'ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

Connect with your colleagues

"Deloitte\'s a large, complex and fast-paced organisation but it\'s open to new ideas. Everyone is encouraged to show initiative and challenge the norm.\xe2\x80\x9d

-Lisa, Enabling Functions

Connect to your agile working options

Location: Your home office will be Milton Keynes or Birmingham though hybrid working arrangements are in place.

Work pattern: This is a full time and permanent role.

Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You\'ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.

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Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it\'s why we\'re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we\'re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we\'ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it\'s only when you\'re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we\'ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it\'s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you\'ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you\'ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you\'ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you\'ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You\'ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you\'ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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