Finance Assistant - 3 Months Contract
Main purpose of the job
The post-holder will support the Management Accountant, who is responsible for one of six businesses, in the delivery of our management accounting, including month-end activities, budgeting and forecasting, variance analysis and cost management. They will provide accurate financial information to support the CFO's strategic financial responsibilities including support to the business areas through the Finance Business Partner team. The post holder will help to ensure that the management reporting is accurate, reliable and timely so that it supports the decision making.
The post-holder will work closely with colleagues with responsibility for general accounting and will need to understand and deliver on their management accounting needs. The post-holder will need to work closely with other colleagues in the management accounting team to support the delivery of day-to-day finance services. This will include the posting of journals, account reconciliations, invoicing and purchasing. This will include finance colleagues in the business areas, FP&A, Financial Accounting team and Finance Business Partners. As part of the role the post-holder will support the training and development of finance staff and ensure professional development needs are met.
The post holder will have strong written and oral communication and interpersonal skills. They will be able to demonstrate a customer service mindset with the ability to build strong working relationships with stakeholders.
Duties and responsibilities
- Deliver the operational accounting needs in providing management accounting services to us including processing journals, performing reconciliations, raising invoices against contracts, requisitioning PO's, approving MyHR and Portico forms
- Support the delivery of management accounting services to us including cost management identifying and ensuring accounting entries required are made to ensure the accuracy of management accounts
- Support the month end process to ensure accurate data underpins the management reporting through data management and reconciliation, investigating and resolving discrepancies arising
- Manage and review the budget and forecast template returns, either supporting administrators in updating the templates with budgets and forecasts or reviewing returns to ensure information is complete and accurate
- Deliver the provision of general accounting and transactional processing services supporting day-to-day operational finance including for specific awards and funding in the business area supported
- Assist in the preparation of financial information required by the business area such as for funding bodies, committees or budget holders sufficient to allow meaningful decision making
- Provide finance administrative support to the business area with processes such as: new project set up, giving user access to MyFinance projects, arranging for new project codes, raising PO's and monitoring outstanding PO's for budget-holders, dealing with financial queries, setting up of new suppliers, creating sales invoices and liaising with the PS Hub to ensure these are paid
- Deliver continuous customer service including identifying and initiating improvements to financial systems, processes and workflows
- Perform monthly and year end activities ensuring compliance with financial regulations and external audit requirements for documentation of transactions processed
- Identify and escalate known issues in transactional processing to Management Accountant
- Disseminate good practice and support the provision of guidance and training on operational accounting issues where there is an identified deficiency in understanding across the wider finance community
- Provide an excellent customer service through responding to queries, taking appropriate action and seeking support as required
- Develop strong working relationships with colleagues across finance to share best practice and to develop new systems and processes
- Contribute to training events where relevant to share specific skills and experience with finance colleagues from across the business
- Contribute to team initiatives, adopting a collaborative and supportive approach
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
