Financial Consolidation Lead

London, United Kingdom
Full Time
Strategy & Operations
Experienced
At Board, we power financial and operational planning solutions for the world’s best brands. Thousands of enterprises use our technology to optimize resources, drive growth, and ensure profitability. With advanced analytics and forecasting, plus AI-driven insights, customers transform complex, real-time data into actionable intelligence.

What’s been key to our success? Our people—we value everyone’s unique perspective and energy they bring to the organization. We collaborate openly across teams and borders. We embrace a growth mindset to get results. And we celebrate shared success as goals and milestones are achieved.

Ready to join a team where innovation meets collaboration? If you're driven by bold ideas and a customer-centric mentality, your next adventure starts here!

We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Financial Consolidation to play a pivotal advisory role in the development of our financial consolidation application. Reporting directly to the Product Manager, the SME will provide expert-level guidance to ensure the solution meets the highest standards of accounting, compliance, performance, and user experience.

You will serve as a critical functional voice in our product development lifecycle—translating consolidation and reporting requirements into system design and contributing to the roadmap of a product built to serve complex, multinational environments.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Serve as the functional authority for the design of our financial consolidation engine and related components.
  • Advise on IFRS and/or  US GAAP-based consolidation logic: intercompany eliminations, multi-tier structures, FX translation, minority interests, and statutory reporting.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define user stories, data models, and workflows aligned with consolidation best practices.
  • Review and validate calculations, posting logic, and consolidation outputs to ensure financial accuracy and audit readiness.
  • Contribute to test plans and functional documentation, and participate in solution design reviews.
  • Bring in market insights, competitive benchmarks, and client feedback to refine feature prioritization.
Requirements:
  • 7+ years of experience in group financial consolidation, either in a corporate setting or as a consultant.
  • Deep knowledge of USGAAP and IFRS, understanding of regulatory reporting and compliance requirements.
  • Hands-on exposure to consolidation software such as Board, SAP BPC, Oracle FCCS, HFM, Tagetik, OneStream, etc.
  • Familiarity with the architecture of financial systems, including chart of accounts design, multi-currency logic, and integration principles.
  • Strong communication skills to work cross-functionally between product, engineering, and finance teams.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience as a functional lead in finance software development projects.
  • Educational background in Accounting, Finance, or Information Systems.
  • Knowledge of agile methodologies is a plus.
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