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, y