Programme Assistant
Permanent
Job Description
- 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 maintain the company's cost accounting system.
- 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.
- 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.
- Perform key month-end reporting tasks such as: cost transfer journals, supplier advances, accruals, new order recognition, cash reconciliation, revenue recognition, OSEC reporting
- Support and completion of monthly cost certificates to facilitate billing to customer base.
- Risk and opportunity analysis against output.
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.
Reference no: 104088