Senior Manager Consolidation

Lead the Account-to-Report team and co-lead the Vifor Consolidation function, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant financial reporting across a global portfolio of legal entities. The role is responsible for statutory reporting, external audit coordination, group consolidation activities, financial controls, process standardisation and continuous improvement initiatives. It acts as a key business partner to Group Reporting, Tax, Treasury, Finance Business Partners and external auditors. **Key Responsibilities** **Financial Reporting & Consolidation** * Co-lead global consolidation activities for Vifor entities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting under IFRS and Group reporting requirements across HFM/Hyperion and Finance Core. * Reconcile balance sheet and cash flow consolidation results between HFM and Finance Core, investigating and resolving variances. * Support the Financial Planning and Analytics team to review financial results. * Own and oversee month-end, quarter-end, half-year and year-end close activities. * Ensure completeness and accuracy of financial information submitted to Group Reporting and other corporate stakeholders. * Co-lead consolidated balance sheet planning, ensuring data is consistent across relevant systems. * Support strategic finance transformation projects, including the migration of Vifor to Behring SAP in 2027 through Project UNIFY, the transition from HFM/Hyperion to Finance Core, and the adoption of the new planning system through Project Spark in 2026. **Statutory Accounts & External Audit** * Lead the Account-to-Report team in the preparation, review and filing of statutory financial statements. * Oversee and provide guidance on technical accounting assessments and key accounting judgements, including impairment reviews, provisions and complex accounting matters. * Ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements and evolving accounting standards, supported by external service providers where applicable. **Team Leadership & Talent Development** * Lead, coach and develop a team of accounting professionals, fostering a high-performance and continuous improvement culture. * Manage performance, objective setting, succession planning and development activities for direct reports, and provide guidance to indirect reports. * Support team capability building, including digital upskilling, automation and adoption of new technologies. * Allocate resources effectively to ensure delivery of key reporting, audit and project deadlines. **Cross-functional & Stakeholder Management** * Act as a key finance partner to Tax, Treasury, Group Reporting, Shared Services and senior finance leadership. * Provide clear, practical insight on consolidation, statutory reporting and accounting matters to support effective decision-making. * Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support timely resolution of reporting, audit and compliance matters. **Governance, Controls & Compliance** * Maintain a strong internal control environment across the Vifor Account-to-Report and consolidation processes and support remediation of identified control weaknesses and process risks. * Drive compliance with CSL accounting policies, IFRS requirements and applicable control frameworks. **Qualifications and experience** * Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline. * ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification required. * 7+ years' experience in financial accounting, consolidation, statutory reporting and audit. * 3+ years of proven experience leading finance teams and managing complex stakeholder relationships. * Experience with consolidation systems preferred (experience working with SAP, HFM/Hyperion desirable) * Strong analytical, problem-solving and project management capabilities. * Demonstrated success in finance transformation, process improvement and implementation of financial controls. This role requires hybrid working from the Liverpool office 3 days per week This role is also available to internal candidates as a secondment opportunity. **About CSL Seqirus** --------------------- CSL Seqirus is part of CSL. As one of the largest influenza vaccine providers in the world, CSL Seqirus is a major contributor to the prevention of influenza globally and a transcontinental partner in pandemic preparedness. With state-of-the-art production facilities in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, CSL Seqirus utilizes egg, cell and adjuvant technologies to offer a broad portfolio of differentiated influenza vaccines in more than 20 countries around the world. 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