Accountant
Full Time
Job Description
- Forecasting and budgeting of cost Centre spend, together with the allocations out to the businesses
- Liaising with cost Centre managers to fully understand cost base and headcount to ensure that actuals, forecasts and budgets are accurate
- Clear reporting and effective commentary of direct costs & allocations, including variance analysis, to enable Support management and Group to fully understand costs
- Assisting leadership with budget and other presentations
- Month end processes including checking accuracy of entries and posting of accruals, prepayments and cost allocation journals; ensuring month end deadlines are hit
- Cost related Balance sheet management & reconciliation
- Review of allocations, understanding & loading of allocation drivers and ensuring allocations are run correctly each month
- Completion of month end, including reconciliations, journals and accruals.
- Ensuring that all costs are accounted for consistently and according to group policies as well as compliant with IFRS principles
- Invoice coding & control
- Other reporting including direct cost, allocations & headcount across the bank
- Other ad-hoc cost accounting tasks as required (e.g. transaction reporting of vendor invoices & expense claims, catering recharges)
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Fully qualified accountant CIMA, ACCA or ACA Accountant (or qualified by experience/part qualified) (essential)
- Degree educated (advantageous)
- Previous experience in Financial Services; broad banking product knowledge (advantageous)
- Intermediate /Advance MS Excel skills (essential)
- Knowledge of JDE and Essbase (highly desirable)
- Excellent attention to detail
- Pro-active with a strong work ethic
- Able to manage detailed processes without losing sight of the big picture
- Strong relationship management skills, able to influence and build rapport
- Ability to work in a dynamic, complex and changing environment
- Good problem-solving skills
- Ability to work well independently and as part of a team, across the entire financial and accounting spectrum
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure, managing conflicting priorities
- Ability to analyze, interpret and assimilate information
Reference no: 97515