Financial Reporting Manager

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 report reviews

• Ensure clear, concise, and high-quality communication of financial information to senior stakeholders

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• At least two years’ recent, hands-on experience preparing and project managing and owning the Annual Reports and Accounts and statutory financial statements, ideally within fintech, banking, payments or broader financial services

• Strong practical knowledge of IFRS, with the ability to apply accounting and disclosure requirements when drafting and reviewing financial statements, notes and accounting policies

• Demonstrable experience preparing consolidated financial statements and statutory accounts from planning and working papers through review, approval and filing, rather than experience limited to external audit

• Proven ability to own a complex reporting timetable, coordinate multiple contributors, manage dependencies and deliver a complete set of high-quality financial statements to deadline

• Experience managing the external audit process from the preparer side and working constructively with auditors while retaining ownership of the accounts and reporting process

• Strong stakeholder management, technical writing and attention to detail, with the ability to explain accounting judgements and influence across Finance and the wider business

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with relevant post-qualification financial reporting experience

Desirable / Nice to have:

• Experience preparing Annual Reports and Accounts for regulated banking or financial services entities in the UK and/or EU

• Experience applying complex IFRS requirements, developing accounting policies and preparing technical accounting papers and disclosure assessments

• Familiarity with Board and Audit Committee reporting, governance reviews and the statutory approval and filing process

What makes a great ClearBank team member? Does this sound like you?

• You focus on solutions and positive outcomes, thinking radically and responsibly to find the best result for our customers, your colleagues and the bank;

• You actively seek feedback from others to drive your growth and development, always assuming positive intent from others and develop strong, trusting relationships you’re your colleagues and customers: you really, genuinely care;

• You always strive for the highest quality, but you know that done is better than perfect; you welcome a challenge knowing that they learn as you go and iterate;

• ‘I’ before ’we’, isn’t in your vocabulary

Role level: 4

If this sounds like you then we encourage you to dust off that CV and apply!

*Please note that we are not currently able to sponsor applicants for immigration purposes.

A little bit more about us! 

ClearBank is Where You Can belong: 

At ClearBank we think about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) a lot. Not because we think we should. But because we know we should – how else can we build a happy workforce and be successful as a business. We’re committed to making sure our teams reflect society. And we put energy and effort into making this a place where everyone feels at home, where they’re given the trust and encouragement to do their very best work. Here are some of the things we’re most proud of: 

• 42% of our senior management roles are held by women 

• Our enhanced family leave policies

• Launching our partnership with Code First Girls 

• Increasing awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace through our partnership with the Inclusive Group 

Our hiring process and what you can expect:

Application: a member of our talent acquisition team will review your application against the key requirements for the role and let you know within two weeks whether you’re moving forward to the next stage; 

Screening: You’ll spend 30-45 minutes speaking to one of our recruiters learning more about the role and ClearBank, and we’ll get it know more about you, your experience and how your skills align with the role (this will be via phone or Teams video call). You can expect to hear back from us within seven days following this meeting (if things are taking longer than expected, we’ll let you know that too); 

First Interview: You’ll spend one hour with a member of our hiring team focusing on your skills, competencies and your ways of working at the same time we’ll give you time to ask more questions about the role, the team and learn more about the ClearBank culture. This will be via Teams.  

Second Interview: This will be a competency-based interview with one or more members of our team.

Final Stage: You will have a final meeting with the Head of Department. This will be around 45-60 minutes.  

Offer: Congratulations! Get ready to transform banking forever! 

Our commitment to you as a candidate: 

We will always try our best to get back to you within seven days of your interview whether you’ve been successful or not and provide you with feedback. Sometimes things take a little longer, so we may not have a decision to share but we will get it touch to let you know we need a little more time.  

We’re unable to provide specific individual feedback at the application or screening stage but know that your application was reviewed and considered carefully.  

We wish you the best of luck with your application and maybe we’ll be celebrating your new role at ClearBank soon!  

Equal Opportunities

ClearBank is committed to ensuring equal opportunities throughout every stage of the recruitment process. ClearBank recognises that diversity is vital to the long-term success of the business in the communities and markets in which it operates. ClearBank is also a firm believer that an inclusive culture fosters greater employee engagement and collaboration. 

ClearBank strives for diversity and inclusion of all forms, including (but not limited to): gender, age, educational and professional background, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief and sexual orientation. 

As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable adjustments, to candidates during the recruitment process, including to individuals with disabilities. We want to create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate you. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with our Talent Acquisition team prior to your interview stage, if applicable. 

The legal bit

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