Senior Project Director x 3 vacancies

Job Description

The role:

The Senior Project Directors support the Director in developing the UKEB’s strategy and delivery of the technical work agenda, to agreed timescales, to ensure the UKEB can effectively deliver its statutory functions.  

Key accountabilities are:

• Leading the delivery of a range of projects, including managing and developing project staff, timely delivery of papers to the Board, effective presentation at Board meetings, and meeting project deadlines.
• Ensuring adherence to due process over the life of the projects.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, which includes active dialogue with IFRS Foundation and IASB staff, and may include chairing working groups that advise the UKEB Secretariat.
• Working with the Director and other senior Secretariat team to ensure on-going and timely team management and development.
• Work with the Director to set the culture of the team in line with the guiding principles of transparency, accountability, independence and thought leadership.
• Leading efforts to increase ‘joined up’ ways of working within the UKEB team and with relevant FRC colleagues. 
• Direct line management of a proportion of team members.

The Person:

Essential: 

• Knowledge and understanding of the wider public interest issues that arise from the UKEB’s work in influencing and adopting IFRS accounting standards for use in the UK. 

• Capacity to comprehend and articulate technical accounting matters to a range of stakeholders. 

• A good understanding of the due processes of the international accounting standard-setting process and related organisations. 
• Able to analyse complex issues and identify salient concerns and solutions 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills –  
• Able to debate complex technical issues 
• Able to listen to, assess and assimilate others’ perspectives, concerns and proposals openly as well as to convey persuasively the different perspectives, concerns and proposals. 
• Focused on agreeing the way forward on projects 
• Strong interpersonal skills, demonstrating respect for others and able to establish credibility, and to work effectively and influence assertively, at senior levels. 
• Ability to manage staff effectively and to work collaboratively with team members and external stakeholders. 
• Able to manage complex projects, including setting and meeting deadlines and managing working groups.  

Desirable: 

• A sound understanding of the function of financial reporting in capital markets, the law relating to corporate reporting, and the role of the UKEB and its statutory functions. 

• Educated to a degree level with a professional or post-degree qualification, with extensive experience post qualification in relevant field e.g. accountancy, company law or financial regulation.  

• Commercial awareness and political sensitivity. 

• Demonstrable experience of engaging successfully and confidently with external stakeholders at a senior level. 
• Self-motivated individual who is confident, committed, enthusiastic and energetic. 
• A passion to secure the public interest. 
• Able to be both firm and diplomatic. 
• Flexible and collaborative. 
• Resilient and confident in managing competing demands.  
• Willing and demonstrably able to act with integrity and impartiality, independent of any individual or collective stakeholder interest. 
• Able to foster a team environment and to develop and mentor staff members. 

The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement, with an expectation that a minimum of 40% of a person's working time will be located at one of our offices per week, with precise arrangements to be agreed between the employee and the line manager. The UKEB’s work requires significant stakeholder outreach and the post holder will be required to lead such engagement on areas within their remit. This will require them to attend at least 35 scheduled stakeholder meetings, lasting up to a full day, in person per year in the London office. Other, project specific, ad-hoc meetings are also held in person and may require additional in person attendance in the London offices or stakeholder premises. The post holder should be able to work flexibly to support the team’s activities.

Additionally, the post requires some travel abroad, depending on business needs.

Rewards and benefits

• The FRC offers remuneration packages, including 30 days annual leave, flexible bank holidays plus ability to buy extra leave .
• Generous employer pension contribution of 10%.
• Staff Employee Assistance Programme including confidential counselling and work life services.
• The FRC offers staff the opportunity to save at least 25% on the purchase of a new bike through the Cycle to work scheme.
• The FRC has a strong work/life balance ethos.

The FRC believes that equality of opportunity and diversity is important to our work and we are strongly committed to being an inclusive employer. Our values of being fair and independent supports this commitment. We're a signatory to the Government's Disability Confident scheme, which means that we guarantee an interview to any disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

Equal opportunities monitoring is an important means of demonstrating and implementing our commitment to promoting equality of opportunity and diversity. Completing our diversity form will assist the FRC to identify any barriers that prevent access to employment and career development for certain groups of people, and to develop solutions, such as action plans, new policies and practices.

The role is based in our London office.

We specifically encourage female and/or BAME candidates to apply for this post as they are currently underrepresented at this level in our organisation.