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

You will enjoy both working on your own initiative and as part of a team. We are looking for an accountant who is highly analytical and problem solving and who can piece together information to create the whole picture

• Cost Accounting/Management Accounting experience (essential)
• Cost Allocation experience (essential)
• 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
• Good presentation skills