Job Description

In this role you would be expected to take responsibility for a number of areas including, but not limited to:

• Compilation and review of budgets using actual performance, previous budget figures, estimated revenue, expense reports, and other data sources to control funds and provide for proper financial administration.
• Coordinating multiple financial cost analyses functions, including cost allocation, setting up cost control systems, collecting data, controlling costs and preparing reports that assist and maintain the company's cost accounting system.
• Ensuring that costs are allocated according to established procedures
• Ensuring compliance with all aspects of Corporate policy
• Support of formal reporting to Line of Business for both long term and short term financial planning.
• Analysis of financial information and preparation of programme related financial reports.
• Supporting project completion on schedule following established procedures, schedules, and work plans.
• Assisting in the preparation of the monthly/quarterly financial charts.
• Labor analysis and detailed breakdowns of booking levels, demand analysis and spend profiles to ensure staffing levels are in line with programme need and site-wide resource availability, tracking of other direct costs.
• Assisting the program team and financial management in monitoring and tracking program expenditures and earned value management (EVM) performance, highlight issues/concerns/trends to the program team, and ensure that program financial commitments are met.
• Interacting with a variety of program and financial management personnel ensuring conformance with company and program processes and procedures.
• Perform key month-end reporting tasks such as: cost transfer journals, supplier advances, accruals, new order recognition, cash reconciliation, revenue recognition.
• Support and completion of monthly cost certificates to facilitate billing to customer base.
• Risk and opportunity analysis against output.

In return we’ll provide you with meaningful work that will allow you to grow your skills and enhance your career with us. However equally important to us is that you enjoy a strong work life balance as well. That’s why we offer flexible work schedules and a comprehensive benefits suite to enable you to live a healthy fulfilling life at and outside of work. Plus our 4-day working week gives you every Friday off to allow you to spend more time doing the things you enjoy!

What we offer you

• Private Medical Insurance
• Competitive Pension
• Dental
• Critical Illness
• Life Assurance
• Travel Insurance
• Employee discounts for top high street shops
• Employee Assistance Program which includes free face to face counselling sessions, Legal advice, Financial advice, etc.
• Internal training and development alongside out Education assistance programmes
• Reimbursement for a professional membership
• Competitive policies that support flexibility and family leave inclusive of enhanced maternity leave

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified Accountant - CIMA, ACCA, ACA (or equivalent) plus industry experience.
• Accountant with proven experience of working as part of a programme office team reporting on programme finance.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills - liaison/interaction with programme personnel at a senior management level.
• Highly proficient Microsoft Excel modelling skills.
• Current SC clearance or ability to achieve.