Head of Financial Reporting

This will be Smiths Detection’s first Corporate and Financial Reporting expert.  The successful candidate will be the internal financial reporting specialist with crucial responsibilities in preparing the Detection business for independent financial reporting outside of Smiths Group plc.

Smiths Detection will be the size of a FTSE 250 listed business, may have listed debt and we require someone with an excellent technical understanding of the reporting requirements that will be needed.   Under PE ownership, clear, accurate and purposeful financial reporting will be required from the outset.  Additionally we are looking for a leader with skills and experience of change, able to design for an evolving finance organisation looking to the future.

The role is to manage the end to end review, reporting and audit process, beginning by prepare internally though creating new processes and policies, in readiness for external reporting a...