Key Responsibilities will include:
- Responsible for managing the Management Accounting team ensuring all tasks are completed in a timely and accurate manner.
- Ensure all reconciliations are prepared, reviewed and actioned within a reasonable timeframe for The Carlyle Trust Limited and its subsidiaries, including Julian Hodge Bank Limited. Responsible for ensuring a record of all month end reconciliations are maintained and are ready for review by management.
- Support the team in producing Jane Hodge Foundation and Group accounts.
- Assist in the preparation of management reports.
- Oversee the Treasury back office processing function ensuring both controls and segregation of duties are maintained.
- Oversee purchase ledger activities to ensure that suppliers are paid accurately and on time. Ensure that appropriate controls are maintained and that evidence of the controls working is maintained.
- Work closely with the actuarial services provider to provide timely and accurate financial information including the relevant checks and data reconciliations are undertaken.
- Assist with the production and submission a number of the groups regulatory returns in a timely and accurate manner.
- Oversee the production and review the financial information supplied to third parties under the Bank’s third party servicing arrangement.
Taxation
- Work closely with professional advisors to ensure tax payments and returns are completed in a timely and accurate manner.
People
- Provide advice and support to colleagues on queries of a more complex or technical nature, identifying training needs and recommending or providing training / coaching for colleagues where appropriate.
- Lead, manage and motivate employees (in accordance with People Services policies and procedures) to maximise individual and team performance in the achievement of stated objectives.
Processes and control
- Establish, maintain and review operating policies and job cards (systems of internal control) to ensure that assets and where weaknesses are identifying ensure remedial action is taken in a timely manner.
- Understand the output of the department, putting in place controls and reconciliations to ensure accounting discrepancies are identified and take ownership of issues through to a satisfactory conclusion
- Support the risk culture of the organisation by taking personal responsibility for identifying and managing risks in everything you do.
Please be aware that should we pursue your application, all our Financial Services employees will be expected to complete background checks to assess suitability for employment, these include; a criminal record, identity, sanctions, adverse finance, fraud prevention and reference checks to comply with our regulatory requirements.
Hodge is an advocate of being an equal opportunities employer, We believe in promoting equality and diversity which is central to our lives today. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and recognises the value a diverse workforce brings to an organisation.
ESG and sustainability are at the heart of everything we do and serves as a reminder of the responsibility we have to our stakeholders, customers, colleagues and the communities we operate in to use our position wisely. We’re currently exploring different certifications available and have done an initial review of how we think we’d fare, as we see this as a real opportunity for Hodge given our social purpose.
Apply today to become part of Hodge’s mission to make life better for customers and society in the moments that matter.
