Financial Reporting Project Manager

Salary: £64,800 per year

Opportunity with a very successful, global professional services/business advisory firm. Financial Reporting is an exciting, dynamic and fast-growing environment. To support continued growth, this organisation is looking for a new Project Manager to work alongside Client Service Managers in the delivery of exceptional client service.

Financial Reporting Project Manager – About The Role

As Project Manager you will be responsible for developing, embedding and championing effective project management across the Financial Reporting team, supporting the delivery of solutions to clients.

• Lead on KYC process and act as liaison between client, client service team and KYC team including:
• Monitoring and completing upcoming renewals in collaboration with client service managers.
• Ensure continuing compliance with the firm’s CDD procedures.
• Independence / conflicts management.
• Lead on contracting / engagement letter process, drafting contracts and managing appropriate approvals as well as managing changes to scope / contracts / deliverables.
• WIP and billing management for client projects, including preparing invoices, completing write offs / nil bills and managing WIP provisions in collaboration with client service managers.
• Debt monitoring and management, including supporting Client Service Managers in following up with clients.
• Management of service line billing schedules and tracking budget vs actuals.
• Support with service line budgeting.
• Maintain high standards of quality and an appropriate attitude to risk to ensure exceptional client service is provided to clients at every stage of the project.
• Workflow management for client projects and processes – producing trackers, checking progress, reporting and escalating as appropriate.
• Identifying, allocating and co-ordinating resources to projects.
• Support the creation and maintenance of project plans and timetables to ensure on-time delivery.
• Supporting the creation of and leading on the monitoring of budgets.
• Coordination and monitoring of deliverables, including compilation reports and letters of representation.
• Coordination of the bid process with the team members responsible for operational leadership of sales and marketing.
• Working with marketing team to ensure materials and credentials are up to date.
• Assist with proposal creation and finalisation where required.

The successful Financial Reporting Project Manager will be/have:

To succeed in this agile environment, you’ll need to demonstrate excellent project management skills and initiative. In return, you’ll have the chance to develop in an exciting and varied role. The right person to accompany us on our journey will have the following personal qualities:

• Forward thinking and anticipates requirements.
• The confidence to be proactive and complete matters arising before being instructed to do so. 
• Communicates face to face as much as possible rather than via email. Uses non-verbal behaviour to promote open communication.
• Adept at overcoming barriers to completing tasks. Takes ownership of issues, either finding a solution or seeking advice where necessary. Seeks to remove barriers that prevent fee earners from focusing on productive work, e.g. by undertaking administrative processes.
• Strong project management experience in (in order of preference) a Finance, Professional Services or Financial Services environment or a qualified accountant looking for a less technical role.
• Experience in managing projects both with and without a PMO / Project Office in place.
• Experience of working in customer or client-facing roles.
• Excellent communication skills and with the ability to influence, experienced at presenting at a senior level, internally and to clients.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Excellent understanding of a variety of project management methodologies, preferably including PRINCE2. Strong project management skills, process and outcome driven 

Financial Reporting Project Manager – Benefits

28 days’ holiday

Access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions 

Life assurance cover 

Income protection insurance and much more

£36k cash allowance

Howett Thorpe are acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role and comply with all relevant UK legislation and do not discriminate on any protected characteristics. Due to the high volume of applications we currently receive, we are unable to respond to all candidates. If you do not hear from a Consultant within 5 working days, please assume that you have not been successful.

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