Financial Reporting Manager

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Financial Reporting Manager About ClearBank ClearBank is a technology enabled clearing bank, built on a modern cloud-based platform. We provide real-time clearing and embedded banking services, enabling our clients to build better financial services. Our culture is grounded in trust, ownership, and collaboration, empowering our people to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and each other. Role Purpose The Financial Reporting Manager is responsible for leading the Group’s external financial reporting, including end-to-end ownership of the Annual Report and Accounts (ARA), consolidated financial statements and statutory accounts. The role ensures accurate, timely and compliant reporting in line with IFRS, regulatory requirements and corporate disclosure standards, while coordinating stakeholders across Finance, the wider business and external audit. Key Responsibilities: Financial Reporting & Statutory Accounts Own and lead the end-to-end preparation of the Group’s Annual Report and Accounts, including the consolidated IFRS financial statements, notes and disclosures, and project manage compilation of the front-half strategic and governance reports Prepare and oversee standalone statutory accounts for regulated banking entities in the UK and EU, including the primary statements, supporting notes and front-half narrative sections Translate IFRS, company law, regulatory and corporate reporting requirements into complete, accurate and appropriately evidenced financial statement disclosures Develop and maintain robust working papers, disclosure checklists, review processes and scalable financial controls that support the accuracy, completeness and auditability of published reporting Own the detailed reporting plan and critical path, coordinate inputs and reviews across multiple stakeholders, manage dependencies and risks, and deliver against Board, audit, filing and other external deadlines Audit & Assurance Lead the external audit workstream as part of the wider statutory reporting cycle, acting as the primary point of contact for auditors and internal stakeholders Coordinate audit evidence and responses across the business, ensuring requests are resolved efficiently without compromising ownership or delivery of the financial statements Monitor audit progress, judgement and outstanding matters, escalating and resolving issues to protect the reporting timetable and governance process Drive the timely resolution of audit findings and ensure agreed actions are embedded into future reporting processes and controls Prepare robust going concern assessment papers using the 5-year planning projections, latest ICAAP and other applicable internal reports and liaising with relevant internal stakeholders. Maintain strong, current knowledge of IFRS and apply it in drafting, reviewing and supporting the Group’s financial statements, accounting policies, notes and disclosures Assess the impact of new and revised IFRS standards, amendments and IFRIC interpretations, as well as emerging corporate reporting requirements and FRC updates, through structured horizon scanning and impact assessments Partner with Financial Control and other subject-matter experts to implement new or amended accounting requirements, including IFRS 18, and reflect business developments appropriately in external reporting Stakeholder Management Build strong, collaborative relationships across Finance and the wider business Early engagement of stakeholders to ensure alignment on reporting requirements and timeliness of delivery Influence and coordinate multiple contributors to deliver high-quality, FTSE-grade outputs Be the owner, act as a trusted advisor and the go-to on external reporting matters Governance & Board Reporting Prepare impactful Board-level papers including going concern assessments, horizon scanning, and annual report and audit updates Support the Board Audit Committees’ reporting throughout the reporting cycle including the co-ordination of annual repo

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