£ 39000 Per year
Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Provide insightful commentary and analysis on variances to budgets, flash, prior month and prior year. Highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variances and making recommendations for improvement, where appropriate
- Engage with departmental Heads and Directors to ensure their respective understood and correctly and accurately presented.
- This will include ensuring that operating costs are allocated correctly across departments (yards)
- Ownership of the balance sheet reconciliation.
- Ensuring that all accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis, differences are understood, and clear actions plans to resolve are in place
- Assist within the team to develop and implement management accounts team operating procedures and policies
- Support the internal and external audit process, ensuring that all data requests are sent in a timely manner
- Assistant with the production of annual budgets and supporting analytical analysis
- Support the continued development of Budgeting, Operating Plan and Modelling tools
- Look for opportunities for business process re-engineering by challenging norms, being inquisitive and influential in driving positive change to achieve automation and efficiencies
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Strong excel skills
- Self-motivated, flexible can-do attitude works well under pressure, on own initiative and in a team environment
- Ability to priorities work load and keep to strict deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail
- Good working knowledge of current accounting software systems
- Experience of a cash handling business
- Qualified Accountant
Reference no: 108508