£35000 - £45000 Per year
Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Working closely with the Sales team to monitor and report on new orders received.
- Working closely with the Delivery Team to record and review the contract deliverables to generate associated billing and revenue for the individual contracts, with close business involvement to close and resolve issues.
- Responsible for the P&L preparation of the contract monthly actuals, forecasting and annual budgets.
- Understanding the cost of sales element of all contract revenue for monthly reporting and forecasting.
- Preparation and review of related Balance Sheet account reconciliations and investigation and correction of errors.
- Review of monthly actuals against defined targets including formal variance analysis.
- Input into the monthly financial board pack including review and commentary.
- Working closely with the Sales team to understand future opportunities and the Delivery team on contract delivery for deriving the forecast.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Contracts
- Forecasting
- Management Accounts
- Revenue Recognition
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Must be comfortable in presenting financial information to non-financial managers. An articulate, operationally focused mind-set would be ideal.
- Systems implementation experience is advantageous but the desire to embrace new methodologies and continuously seek to improve is of a higher importance.
- Strong presentation skills both written and verbal.
- Detail oriented while able to understand and communicate the big picture.
- An ability to manage competing priorities in an effective and efficient manner.
- Hands on team player within the Finance team and wider organization.
- Pro-activeness and confidence in making decisions.
- High level of proficiency (Excel), manage existing spreadsheets and improve them, as necessary.
- Overall good technical proficiency and ability to adapt skills to new applications.
- Experience of Data manipulation / modelling using spreadsheets.
- The knowledge and use of PowerPoint and Access would also be advantageous.
Reference no: 109430