Financial Consolidation & Data Lead - Finance Transformation

Skillsbay is supporting a major Finance Transformation Programme and is looking for experienced Financial Consolidation & Data specialists to support the design and implementation of a new finance environment.

This is a functional finance role, not a technical systems position. We are looking for qualified accountants with strong backgrounds in group consolidation, financial reporting and financial data, who can work across Finance, the transformation programme and the implementation partner.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide functional expertise across financial consolidation and group reporting.

• Define requirements for statutory, management and regulatory reporting.

• Work with complex group and subsidiary structures, including multi-entity and multi-currency environments.

• Support the design of future consolidation processes, including subsidiary trial balances, mappings, adjustments and reporting.

• Analyse and reconcile complex financial data across entities and systems.

• Support Chart of Accounts, entity structures, hierarchies and financial mappings from a consolidation and reporting perspective.

• Support financial data gathering, cleansing, mapping, validation and migration.

• Define reconciliation and validation requirements to ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial data.

• Work closely with Finance SMEs and the System Integrator to translate accounting and reporting requirements into the future solution.

• Review and challenge proposed designs to ensure they meet Finance, reporting and control requirements.

• Support testing, dry-runs, cutover and readiness for go-live.

• Engage with senior Finance stakeholders, subsidiary teams and programme workstreams to resolve issues and make clear recommendations.

Essential Experience

• Qualified accountant ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.

• Strong financial consolidation and group reporting experience within a large, complex organisation.

• Strong understanding of statutory and management reporting.

• Experience working with group/subsidiary structures and consolidated financial statements.

• Strong understanding of financial data, including Chart of Accounts, entity hierarchies, mappings and trial balances.

• Experience of financial reconciliations, consolidation adjustments and data validation.

• Experience supporting a major finance transformation, ERP implementation or financial systems change.

• Ability to translate Finance requirements into functional system/process requirements.

• Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence challenging solution designs and implementation partners.

Desirable Experience

• Oracle Fusion Financials experience.

• Oracle FCCS experience.

• Experience migrating from Legacy consolidation/reporting systems.

• Experience with HFM, OneStream, Tagetik or similar consolidation/reporting platforms.

• Higher Education, public sector or similarly complex organisational experience.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is likely to come from a Group Finance, Group Reporting or Financial Consolidation background, with subsequent experience supporting major finance transformation or systems programmes.

We are not looking for a purely technical EPM/FCCS consultant.

The priority is someone who understands consolidation from a Finance and accounting perspective how group structures, financial data, CoA, mappings, intercompany and reporting requirements work and can translate those requirements into a future finance solution.

Oracle FCCS experience would be beneficial, but it is not essential.