£45000 - £50000 Per year
Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Co-ordination of functional business planning and budgeting activities.
- Ensuring rigorous financial control is applied across a multi-million pound cost base.
- Business partnering with senior functional managers coordinating financial planning activities in support of the annual budget and longer-term business planning cycles.
- Maintaining and improving best practices whilst developing insightful and supportive relationships with non-finance and operational leaders.
- Business partnering senior business leaders acting as counsel, challenge and decision support.
- Functional reporting to senior finance and operational leaders.
- Consolidating functional headcount and strategic planning.
- Finding opportunities to simplify and improve internal finance processes and to standardize reporting.
- Supporting the team in key month end task and close process
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Part or fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Intermediate level Excel user comfortable with manipulating data
- Proven expertise in building and maintaining robust financial models and interrogating data
- Ability to build strong and productive working relationships with both finance and non-finance colleagues, whilst maintaining independence and integrity.
- Experience of presenting/discussing financial data with non-financial stakeholders.
- Ability to challenge the business to make effective decisions whilst being cost-conscious.
- Experience of working in a team spread across several locations and a willingness to travel occasionally is desirable.
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