Take overall ownership of producing month end management accounts & departmental P&L’s
Provide insightful commentary and analysis on variances to budgets, flash, prior month and prior year
Monitor KPI’s, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variances and making recommendations for improvement, where appropriate
Engage with departmental Heads & Directors to ensure their respective P&L’s are understood and correctly and accurately presented.
This will include ensuring that operating costs are allocated correctly across departments
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
Provide monthly reporting on balance sheet status and risk and opportunities
Assist the team to develop and implement management accounts 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