# Senior Associate, Financial Reporting and Control

**Company**: London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
**Location**: Colombo
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The main responsibilities of this role will be preparing, developing, and analysing financial information so that LSEG's senior management can make well-informed decisions, leading to future stability, growth, and profitability.

The role focuses on core accounting skills, working across different business divisions in order to support the whole organisation.

**Responsibilities**

- Preparation of month-end accounts close and review processes to ensure accuracy of P&L and Balance Sheet, and adherence to all Group reporting deadlines.

- Responsible for on boarding of additional scope and aligning the process to according to the TOM.

- Ensure that the teams meet tight reporting deadlines whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy and quality.

- Preparation of Balance Sheet reconciliations and substantiations.

- Support the external audit process for companies within scope including liaising with the external auditors to address their questions and requests (CAS).

- Adherence to internal controls as per group policies and the financial control framework.

- Support Group projects and ensure detailed implementation of any new systems and processes.

- Work collaboratively in identification and support of continuous improvement activities.

- The role will be encouraged to partner with Entity Accountants, Financial Controllers, Group Reporting, and Statutory Reporting teams and be a key member of the Finance CoE.

**Preferred Skills and Experience**

- Having professional accounting degree with minimum 4 years of experience in General Accounting.

- Strong track record in Processing core accounting transactions and consolidations to ensure balances are accurately reflected in the general ledger.

- Background in a finance shared services environment would be added advantage.

- Financial control process including account reconciliations and substantiations.

- Analysis, production, and delivery of reporting packs / schedules to represent financial performance.

- Hands on experience in SAP, Oracle, Oracle Fusion, and Blackline will be an added advantage.

- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Packages. Specially in Excel.

- Excellent communication skills in oral & written English.

- Be a lead proponent in driving a collaborative culture to working across finance.

- Adaptable to working in a constantly evolving environment to meet business priorities and deadlines.

- Strong process orientation, with ability to craft robust reporting frameworks.

- Ability to build strong working relationships with global colleagues.

- Improve opportunities, i.e., challenge ways of working, embrace Group practices, seek, and provide information and clarification.

- Accuracy and outstanding attention to detail.

- Ability to work according to UK work hours.

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## Skills

### Required
- accounting
- financial analysis
- SAP
- Oracle
- Microsoft Office

### Nice to have
- Oracle Fusion
- Blackline
- Excel

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