Ian Bishop

Group Finance - Head of Accounting, Consolidation & External Reporting at Roche

Speaker

Ian has been responsible for the Roche Group IFRS financial statements and Finance Report for the last twenty years and is a member of the IASB’s Global Preparers’ Forum.

He leads a team of 25 people in two sub-teams:

Accounting and External Reporting
• Production of the Roche Group’s annual and interim external financial statements in accordance with IFRS. Includes interaction with Audit Committee and Group External Auditors.
• Support to Investor Relations and Group Communications for accounting and financial reporting questions.
• Transaction Support - M&A activities and Debt prospectuses.
• Financial Reporting and Accounting for: Pensions, Stock Compensation Plans, Legal and Environmental issues, Impairment of goodwill and intangible assets, Restructuring plans.
• Monitoring IFRS developments and implementing new standards.
• Maintaining Group Accounting Manual and Helpdesk
• Preparing training material and delivering 16 week long training courses to internal finance staff.

Consolidation
• Consolidation of results of 200 plus subsidiaries
• for annual and interim external financial statements, including sub-consolidations and carve-out financial statements (when needed).
• for monthly management reporting, including budgets/forecasts.