Senior Group Manager, Finance Operations

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future.

As Senior Group Manager for Central Entities, you will be accountable for leading financial control, accounting governance, regulatory and statutory reporting, and process standardisation across the Central Entities portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide senior oversight of financial accounting, balance sheet integrity and P&L management for the Central Entities portfolio.
• Ensure timely, accurate and complete general ledger recording, reconciliations and financial close deliverables.
• Oversee statutory, tax, regulatory and board reporting requirements, ensuring compliance with applicable legal and governance obligations.
• Own and strengthen the financial control environment across Central Entities, including policies, procedures, approval governance and documentation standards.
• Identify and manage financial, operational and compliance risks, ensuring appropriate escalation and remediation of control issues.
• Lead the preparation and review of financial reports for entity boards, Group Finance, senior management and other key stakeholders.
• Provide clear analysis of financial performance, balance sheet movements, risks, opportunities and emerging issues to support management decision-making.
• Partner with cost management, capital management and other Finance teams on budgeting, forecasting, recharge, cash flow and entity funding matters.
• Lead the centralised record-to-report process for Central Entities, ensuring close timelines, quality standards and governance requirements are met.
• Oversee cash flow forecasting, funding requirements and liquidity monitoring for Central Entities.
• Plan and coordinate external audit, statutory audit and SOX compliance activities, ensuring audit requests, accounting matters and control observations are addressed on a timely basis.

Core Competences Required:

• Financial leadership and governance
• Technical and regulatory expertise
• Stakeholder management
• Risk and control mindset
• People and process leadership

Education and Experience:

• Minimum of 15 years of progressive finance experience, including senior-level responsibility for financial control, accounting governance, financial reporting, audit and compliance.
• Strong track record in managing complex finance operations across multiple entities, preferably within a multinational, regional finance, shared services or insurance/financial services environment.
• Demonstrated experience in leading month-end close, record-to-report, balance sheet governance, statutory reporting, tax compliance, SOX/internal controls and external audit processes.
• Proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders, including Finance leadership, entity boards, auditors, tax advisors, company secretaries and cross-functional business partners.
• Experience in leading teams, driving process standardisation, strengthening control environments and implementing finance transformation or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a related discipline.
• Professional accounting qualification such as CA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent is required or strongly preferred.

Skills:

• Senior finance leadership
• Technical accounting and reporting
• Control and risk management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Process improvement
• Judgement and accountability