Job Description

This role will collaborate with different areas of the business and proactively challenge performance and drive change to ensure key operational and financial targets are achieved or beaten. With a key focus on the Service Delivery and Support Services departments to provide Business Partnering Support, training and interface between Finance & Commercial.
Key Responsibilities

• Direct management of role, including day-to-day communication and motivation as well as succession planning and performance management
• Responsible for meet accounting and payment deadlines, ensure validity of supplier database and maintenance of audit trail of changes.
• Ongoing review of existing finance procedures to ensure internal controls are maintained and efficient and effective financial transaction processing is in place
• Produce financial statements including profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flows, monthly management accounts, variance analysis and commentaries
• Full accountability in the production of the annual budgets and periodic forecasting for providing ongoing analysis against targets and reporting them to the department Directors.
• Ongoing review of cash flow and production of forecasts / monthly banking reconciliation
• Approver of monthly payments on account and first reviewer of quarterly VAT returns
• Responsible for managing capital expenditure including working with Heads of Departments to build sound business cases prior to submission to Executive Team
• Accountable for balance sheet reconciliations for debtors and creditors accounts, ensuring all asset and liabilities are accurately reflected in the financial statements
• Accountable for ensuring compliance with all financial regulations and accounting standards
• Carry out continuous reviews of working accounting practices and processes to ensure efficient and cost-effective operations
• Key point of contact for annual statutory financial audit, all queries to be resolved in a timely manner
• Working with both local and international consolidation departments to ensure complete start to finish monthly group reporting information is submitted in a timely manner.
• Liaise with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure all rechargeable costs are captured, agreed, and billed in a timely manner and compliance with contractual obligations
• Managing and updating internal expense policy as required

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Professional Degree level ACCA or CIMA qualified
• Qualified by experience will also be considered
• Operational partnering experience.
• Experience of annual reporting and planning cycles.
• Previous staff management and development experience (preferable but not required)
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding and adoption of governing principles.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge
• Experience running annual audit
• Excellent accounting skills.
• Excellent planning and forecasting skills.
• Good report writing skills.
• Excellent understanding of finance systems (SAP, BOF and MS Dynamics) and standardised processes.
• Advanced MS Office skills, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to interact at all levels and with different cultures.
• Is able to give an unremitting commitment to building sound working relationships with the operational team.
• Works in the detail and at a more strategic level when required.
• Works in a structured and methodical manner, deadline driven.
• Is able to influence when recommending a course of action.
• Is able to identify business implications in complex data or information.
• Is able to understand the business drivers that contribute to value.
• Continually seeks improved and more efficient methods of working.
• Seeks clarification by testing understanding.
• Works well in a pressured environment.
• Pro-active self-starter.
• Good team player.