Job Description

This will be a varied role and the candidate must demonstrate a good understanding of all aspects of financial accounting. 

• Managing the Financial Accounting Officers including: training; allocation of tasks and responsibilities; daily supervision; and performance management.
• Preparation of monthly accounts.  Reconciling all accounting transactions ensuring they agree to the trial balance.
• Responsibility for the ensuring the fixed asset register is kept up to date and agrees to the monthly trail balance
• Calculate the monthly expenditure accruals including purchase order accruals and departmental accruals.
• Managing the financial accounting transactions and controls for accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll.
• Completion of monthly balance sheet reconciliation including commentary.
• Overseeing the Accounts Payable and Purchase Order System
• Ensuring invoices and expense claims are correctly calculated, approved and coded.
• Reviewing reconciliation of supplier statements to supplier accounts payable ledger accounts.
• Managing the Account Receivables transaction processes including initiating Direct Debit collections; reconciling and banking cheques, postal orders and other income (credit/debit card payments); processing refunds; downloading and action BACS reports and credit control.
• Responsible for the daily bank reconciliation for all bank accounts and producing the daily cash position spread sheet.
• Responsible for the monthly closure of the Cashbook and bank reconciliation.
• Maintaining a rolling cash flow forecast consistent with the financial forecast, the budget and in year forecasts as a basis for Treasury management.
• Advising the Financial Control Manager and the Director of Finance on investment funding maturities and investment options
• Periodically review performance of investments against the investment policy target
• Responsible for the production of the weekly and monthly treasury report.
• Managing the outsourced payroll function covering both the employee and CCM payroll, including:
• Responsible for reconciling pension payments
• Preparing and processing the month end payroll journals and produce monthly balance sheet reconciliations relating to payroll i.e. PAYE control account.
• Responsible for processing employee season ticket loans and reconciling with the Nominal Ledger.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Be Qualified or part-qualified Accountant
• Demonstrate previous managing experience
• Demonstrate previous Financial Accounting experience  
• Be Advanced in Excel skills including pivot tables and advanced formulas
• Have high attention to detail and an orderly approach to processing.
• Demonstrate great communication and interpersonal skills
• Have excellent working knowledge of MS Windows –based software packages, including word processing, databases, electronic mail and the internet.
• Work effectively in a team environment and to process deadlines
• Have payroll and pension processing knowledge
• Be confident with computerised accounting