Job Description

Essential duties & responsibilities
This role is within the management accounts team and reports to the Senior Management Accountant. The management accounts team is responsible for the timely & accurate preparation of the monthly management accounts and related reporting, revenue and cost assurance activities and elements of the preparation of budgets and half yearly forecasts.
The key priorities for the role are:
Month End

• Assisting the Senior Management Accountant to reconcile and review all revenue by type and Business Unit, comparing where required to Budget, Install Base or Key Performance Indicators
• Ensuring the matching concept is upheld where required by ensuring revenue and corresponding costs are recognised together
• Liaising with the wider billing team to address any issues should they arise
• Running reports to accurately ascertain accruals to be posted
• Working with the Assistant Financial Accountant to reconcile and agree closing intercompany balances with other Claranet Group companies and following up and resolving any issues as they arise
• Completing the Group Operations P&L, ensuring that variances between actual and budget are understood
• Completing the Facilities cost analysis and their performance compared to budget
• Providing month end reporting to the Group Finance team and/or COO to aid their understanding of the key drivers of performance in the month. This includes providing consolidated Group Operations reporting for the UK and PT entities
• Completing the monthly Prophix Group Operations reporting

Reporting

• Time recording for Group Operations, ensuring that time recording information is updated each month and that the amounts recorded as capitalised staff costs in Group Operations are fully supportable
• Accurately determine billing for more complex customers and raise invoices as appropriate
• Other ad hoc reporting and analysis as directed by the Senior Management Accountant or Financial Controller

Budgeting

• Taking a lead role in the preparation of the Facilities budget, liaising with the Facilities Manager in ensuring staff needs are met whilst keeping costs under control.
• Taking a lead role in the preparation of the Group Operations budget including discussion with heads of department around key budgeting assumptions
• Preparing the monthly recharge budget and liaising with the group finance team to share across the group countries

Intercompany

• Responsible for administering the monthly Group Operations recharge process. This includes raising monthly recharge invoices to other group companies, ensuring invoices are paid and payments allocated correctly, following up and resolving queries raised by other countries and ensuring that variances between actual and budget are understood
• Responsible for administering the recharge process for payments made by the UK on behalf of the group (including but not limited to Insight, Softcat & AWS). This includes working with the UK Accounts Payable team to ensure supplier invoices are processed and paid in a timely manner, raising the monthly recharge invoices, following up and resolving queries raised by other countries and ensuring that variances between actual and budget are understood
• Being the primary point of contact for other ad hoc intercompany transactions, as and when they arise, ensuring the correct recharge process is followed across the group
• Working with UK and Group Operations teams to review all supplier spend to determine whether additional recharges should be put in place

Other

• Involvement in ad hoc projects (for example system migrations, one off investigations)
• Supporting the procurement team in identifying and implementing group procurement opportunities
• Involvement in group finance initiatives as required
• Involvement in the annual audit process as required

        Desirable:

• Experience of working in a commercial or Information Technology driven business of similar size (revenues of £100m+)
• IFRS reporting experience
• Experience with Microsoft-based accounting software (preferably F&O)
• Experience dealing with and reporting for both group and subsidiary companies
• Degree level academic background

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

ACA / ACCA / CIMA part-qualified (and a keen desire to complete the qualification) Fully AAT Qualified is an acceptable alternative, with a desire to complete CIMA Strong Microsoft Excel skills (Pivot Tables, Sumifs, H/V/XLookups, Index/Match etc) Strong communicator – written and oral A highly driven and energetic individual Ability to critically evaluate processes, finding and implementing ways to improve them Ability to build relationships with individuals at all levels of the organisation Ability to work autonomously and prioritise workload in alignment with the business needs Proactive team player with the confidence to gain credibility across the business A quick learner, able to pick up using multiple new systems