Overview
Nomad Foods Limited (Nomad) is Europe’s leading branded frozen food business both in terms of sales and brand recognition with over €3bn of annual turnover. Nomad Foods produces and markets branded frozen food products across Europe, including Birds Eye, Goodfellas and Aunt Bessie’s in the UK.
Nomad is headquartered in the UK and listed on NYSE. Our long-term financial strategy is to deliver sustainable organic top and bottom line growth by transforming the frozen food industry, investing in our brands and acquiring new businesses to help accelerate growth.
In preparation for future growth, the Company is mid-way through a multi-year, enterprise-wide transformation and optimization program. The program aims to transform data and processes to enable better decision making and analytical capability, building a platform and organization to support future growth and provide better value for shareholders. The program includes the implementation of a new ERP system in some countries.
This role sits in the Group Financial Reporting Team, which is responsible for the production of monthly reporting deliverables for several headquarter entities as well as the consolidated quarterly Group Financial Statements under IFRS. The team is in the process of replacing its existing SAP BPC consolidation tool with S/4 HANA’s Group Consolidation tool with go-live expected in January 2027. At the same time, the Group is transitioning to I
This position reports into the Head of Group Financial Reporting and has 2 direct reports. This position will focus on projects impacting the team as well as taking responsibility for the consolidation process. In addition, the position will support the wider team in month end and quarter end reporting activities.
Responsibilities
The team’s success depends on being able to responding to an ever-changing workload. Therefore, responsibilities in this role are expected to change over time. Willingness and ability to take on a variety of tasks to support the team are essential to ensure the team remains resilient and to promote personal development.
The key role from day 1 will be taking responsibility for the monthly consolidation process, which includes providing clear instructions to component teams, completion of key controls. In this capacity, the role is responsible for preparing for a smooth transition to the new consolidation tool in 2027 and maximising the benefits that can be achieved. The role is expected to support the projects of peers where they overlap, including on activities related to the transition to IFRS 18 and improving supporting materials for the business – such a the group accounting policy manual.
Project work may also include, taking the lead or assisting the team on technical accounting issues and significant unusual transactions. Crucial to this task is ensuring change is performed in a controlled manner. Past projects that may occur again in the future include acquisitions, debt transactions, equity transactions and changes to hedge accounting.
The role also includes accountability for monthly head office company reporting, which is largely completed by the 2 accountants that report into this role.
The role is also expected to support the quarterly and annual close processes, participating in the completion of quarterly financial statements quarterly reporting deliverables, ensuring compliance with the Group SOX controls, supporting XBRL tagging in Workiva platform, and reporting to key stakeholders, including the Audit Committee & Senior Management.
The activities below are illustrative of some of the other tasks in the role. It is expected that there will be a need to get involved in all aspects of the team deliverables as required.
- Supporting the team with local and overseas compliance with statutory reporting requirements
- Supporting legal entity and capital structure projects across the Group
- Integration of acquisitions
For all activities, financial control compliance must be maintained.
To achieve this, the role is expected to:
- Work with Colleagues across the Group, Shared Finance Centre (in Hammersmith) and other markets
- Support members of other Group teams and functions – mainly tax and treasury Teams
- Ensure accuracy and completeness of accounting entries through establishing working practices with Colleagues, reviewing journals and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations
- Complete financial controls in accordance with the controls framework as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
- Assist with the completion of statutory accounts under FRS 101
- Work with the systems and controls teams to enact change and uphold a well-controlled change environment
- Participate in wider finance and accounting projects, including those aimed at further utilising systems
Support any other tasks required to meet the needs of the Financial Reporting Group and its interaction with the wider audience of Stakeholders, e.g. Auditors, Treasury, Financial Planning and Analysis, Tax, legal, Companies House, ONS
Qualifications
Essential
- Graduate
- Audit experience
- Qualified financial accountant (preferably ACA)
- 2-5+ years PQE experience in a Group FR manager role
- Desire to pursue a career in financial reporting
- Good understanding of IFRS, consolidation and Group financial reporting
- Good understanding of month end closing process (B/S reconciliations, Intercompany, Journal entries, accruals, etc.)
- Highly computer literate: strong Excel skills are a must
- Able to work under time pressure and able to manage multiple priorities
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- Desire to progress to Head of FR role
- A good knowledge of financial reporting frameworks
- Strong intellect and communication skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Pro-active and self-starter
- Able to work under time pressure, manage multiple deadlines and prioritise
- Works independently using own initiative
- Ability to build relationships across multiple locations
- Ambition to learn
- Enjoys working in a team and supporting others
- Have a straightforward, open personality and an enthusiastic, positive attitude
Desirable
- Previous FMCG experience
- Budget & forecasting
- US Listed (NYSE, NASDAQ, etc.) entity experience
- Knowledgeable of upcoming regulatory developments
- SAP FI (General Ledger), S/4 HANA, BPC (Financial Reporting) and Workiva (3rd party reporting software) systems knowledge
- Experience with working with multiple foreign currency entities
- Understanding of the consolidation process
- FRS 101 for Company statutory accounts
- Strong presentation and communication skills
- Acquisitions accounting experience
- Experience of working within a strong controls framework (e.g. SOX)
- Ownership/lead/management of projects, particularly change management
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