Senior Manager, Consolidation (Maternity Cover)

Entity: CSL Seqirus

Job Category: Finance

Job Family: Accounting Operations

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

Employer Reference: R\-286229

Job Description
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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\.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 is also available to internal candidates as a secondment opportunity.

About CSL Seqirus
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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.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits
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For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well\-being \| CSL.

You Belong at CSL
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At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion\-and\-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer
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CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility\-statement.

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