Financial Reporting Manager

Blis are looking for an experienced Financial Reporting Manager to join our Finance team on a full-time basis. The Financial Reporting Manager will play a critical role in ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting for the Blis Group which has entities in 8 markets. This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive and detail-oriented finance professional to make a significant impact in a fast-paced and dynamic industry.

The Financial Reporting Manager will be responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting for the Blis Group. This includes overseeing statutory accounts preparation, financial compliance, technical accounting, liaising with external auditors and external reporting in line with IFRS, UK standards and local requirements.

The role requires a strong technical understanding of IFRS, and an ability to work with local Auditors and understand regional reporting nuances, as well as effective collaboration with the global finance team.

Afternoon shift: 2 pm -10 pm IST (Mon - Fri)

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting & Compliance

• Manage all aspects of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting for the Group ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with both local and UK standards.
• Prepare and oversee statutory accounts and regulatory submissions in compliance with IFRS and local GAAP
• Provide technical accounting advice, serving as the go-to expert for technical accounting matters, providing guidance on complex accounting issues and ensuring compliance with the latest IFRS and local accounting standards.

Audit & External Reporting

• Coordinate and manage the external audit process, acting as the primary point of contact with external auditors for the India region.
• Prepare audit schedules, respond to audit queries, and ensure the timely completion of the audit process.
• Oversee the filing of statutory financial reports in line with local regulatory requirements, ensuring all deadlines are met.

Internal Controls & Compliance

• Develop and maintain a strong internal control environment, ensuring financial integrity and minimizing risks.
  

Technical Skills & Experience

• Qualified accountant (CA, CPA, ACCA, or equivalent) with 5+ years of post-qualification experience in financial reporting, statutory accounting, or audit.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and ideally UK and US GAAP
• A solid understanding of technical accounting standards and their practical application.
• Proven experience managing statutory accounts, external audits, and financial compliance for a multinational organization.
• Experience in a similar role within a UK-headquartered company or a multinational organization is highly preferred.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret and address complex financial data and technical accounting matters.
• Proactive problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify process improvements and implement effective solutions.
• High attention to detail and accuracy, especially with complex financial data and reporting.
• Strong organizational skills, able to manage multiple deadlines effectively without compromising quality.
• Proven experience building relationships with internal teams, external auditors, and senior leadership across different geographical regions
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills, with a willingness to work across time zones and adapt to cultural differences within a global organization.
  
  
  About us

Blis is the geo-powered advertising tech stack. We’ve built a radically different omnichannel advertising solution structured on geography, not identity. Audience Explorer is our powerful audience planning platform delivering actionable intelligence & insight to advertisers.

With Blis, advertisers can plan unified audiences with data from premium partners, connected by geo. Buy audiences using smart cookieless technology that can double performance and halve costs. Measure the audience, not just the channel, with patent-pending omnichannel measurement technology.
Established in the UK in 2004, Blis now operates in more than 40 offices across five continents. Working with the world’s largest and most customer-driven companies across all verticals including Unilever, Samsung, McDonald's, HSBC, Mercedes Benz and Peugeot, as well as every major media agency, we deliver ads to 1/5th of the world’s population.

At Blis our vision is to be the undisputed leader in location-powered advertising and analytics. We believe that values create behaviours and behaviours create a culture. Our company values are a huge part of our DNA. We are fully committed to creating a powerful culture of inclusivity and belonging that embraces diversity, encourages people to bring their authentic selves to work, educates everyone at Blis about matters of equality and engages with the wider industry community to drive social change.
As an equal opportunity employer, we treat all our employees and job applicants fairly and equally. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination and take all reasonable steps to create a work environment in which all employees are treated with respect and dignity. We don't condone or tolerate any form of harassment, by employees or by others who do business with us.

Our values

Brave
We're leaders not followers
An innovation and growth mindset helps us solve everyday challenges and achieve breakthroughs. Our passion drives
us to innovate. We don’t see barriers, just possibilities.
We take ownership and hold ourselves accountable for outcomes, good and bad – and we don’t pass the buck.

Love our clients
We're client obsessed
We do what we say and build trusted relationships with our partners for the long term. We act with integrity. We put our clients at the centre of our business. We obsess over the best insights, ideas and solutions to deliver WOW and work with honesty and accountability to get it done.

Inclusive
We're one team
We are empathetic and embrace diversity. Everyone has
a voice and can bring their authentic self to work. We care
about and support each other – with humility and good
humour. Mutual respect and wellbeing are key. We strive
to eliminate bias and be open and transparent.

Solutions driven
We're action oriented
Speed matters in business, so we're solution-driven and
action-oriented. We value simplification and calculated risk taking. We are lean, agile and resourceful self-starters.
We collaborate and break silos, working thoughtfully and
with urgency to solve problems, while learning from mistakes
and celebrating wins.