Management Accountant

The Management Accountant will be reporting directly to the Head of Finance. This role will be key in supporting the development of new and existing finance processes to meet the growing needs of the company. This position will have exposure to all areas of finance, including year end statutory work, project forecasting and system implementation.

The ideal candidate will be quick to pick up new processes and show initiative. This role will be varied and challenging, providing an amazing opportunity for a part qualified finance professional.

Responsibilities

Finance Operations Development:

• Working with the wider finance team to help implement improvements to financial systems and processes including those which impact on the wider business
• Take ownership of critical month end tasks such as revenue recognition and project cost allocation.
• Work with the wider finance team to develop financial systems, including involvement in the Company wide ERP system implementation
• Supporting the finance team with month end management reporting to holding company
• Supporting the finance team with managing the cashflow in relation to project income and costs

Project Forecasting, Accounting and Reporting:

• Work with the Head of Finance to maintain the project forecasting process
• Support Project Managers to prepare data and analysis for monthly financial project status reports including;
• Project actual spend vs budget
• Forecast spend to year end and over project lifetime
• Variance analysis against budget and previous forecast
• Support Project Managers with preparing resource analysis to better understand effort spent and identifying potential areas of risk to the project
• Support on Project audits

Other activities:

• Supporting finance team with year end accounts and audit process. This will include liaising with auditors for certain areas such as revenue recognition
• Assistance with conversion of reported UK GAAP figures to IFRS for group consolidated reporting as required
• Liaise with external accountant to provide information for the annual Corporation Tax return and R&D claims
• Other ad hoc reporting requirements requested by parent company