Job Description

You’ll act as a key business partner to the sales teams, assisting on all finance related activity whilst also supporting the finance manager.

Key responsibilities

• Preparing the annual budget and regular forecasts for the international distribution business, analyzing past trends and liaising with sales execs to produce realistic and informed projections ensuring these are correctly recorded in the accounts system
• Coordination of and participation in monthly sales tracking conference calls
• Preparing monthly management reports, including a Profit & Loss Variance Analysis
• Advising the Sales Executives on the financial aspects of the license agreements, in particular revenue recognition and profitability
• Ad hoc reporting/analysis as requested by the business
• Assisting in the development of in-house systems to improve the sales forecasting / budgeting process
• Providing cover for the Finance Manager when they are on leave, being able to perform the basic duties required to keep the accounts materially correct and answer urgent queries
• Supporting the finance assistant where needed to ensure royalties are accurately input into the system in a timely fashion

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Part qualified or newly fully qualified accountant
• Proficient Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint user
• Previous experience of working within a finance team/environment
• There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.
• Good business partnering experience
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills
• Collaborative approach to work, happy to get involved in projects and share ideas
• Previous experience of using accounting systems & software is beneficial