Reconciliations Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Overseeing the end-to-end reconciliation strategy, managing internal controls, and ensuring strict compliance with accounting standards.
• Lead the end-to-end balance sheet reconciliation agenda, ensuring robust financial controls and compliance across the organisation.
• Support the implementation and continuous improvement of Oracle ARCS (Account Reconciliation Cloud Service) and wider reconciliation processes.
• Manage complex, high-risk and aged reconciliations, investigating variances and driving timely resolution of outstanding items.
• Identify opportunities to automate, standardise and optimise reconciliation processes to improve efficiency and control.
• Partner closely with Finance, FP&A, Financial Control, Shared Services, Transformation teams and external auditors.
• Support ongoing finance transformation projects focused on compliance, process improvement and operational excellence.
• Deliver KPI and SLA performance targets while ensuring strong financial integrity across the function.
• Coach, mentor and support team members, promoting a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Provide clear reporting and insight into reconciliation risks, issues and remediation activities.

Candidate Profile

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA).
• Strong Record-to-Report, Financial Control, Shared Services or Reconciliations leadership experience.
• Deep understanding of balance sheet reconciliations, financial controls and governance.
• Experience working within large, complex, multi-entity organisations.
• Proven experience driving finance transformation, process improvement, systems implementation or data quality initiatives.
• Strong ERP experience, ideally Oracle, SAP or equivalent large-scale finance systems.
• Experience with Oracle ARCS would be highly advantageous.
• A confident stakeholder manager, able to influence and challenge senior colleagues.
• Passionate about developing people and building high-performing teams.