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Job Purpose

To support the CFO ; a commercial role with a focus on high-quality reporting and especially on adding value to the business and impacting results. 

Key Responsibilities

-         Providing financial support and monthly reports to Functional Heads

-         Controlling project accounting across a wide range of implementation projects, on a ‘Percentage of Complete’ basis using source data from  timesheet processing

-         Responsible to act as ‘critical friend’ to Project teams to ensure that revenues recognised in the financial statements are materially accurate and that Project Managers understand their numbers

-         Preparation of monthly management accounts, P&L, Management reports, KPIs and variance analysis

-         Proactive partner to project teams to guide their focus onto key performance issues and help them measure their impact and improvement.

-         Produce and present critical financial information to the board

-         Assist/lead quarterly budget meetings

-         Produce quarterly analytics to parent company

-         Calculate and process inter co Royalties

-         Produce a Weekly cashflow statements

-         Reconcile sales & balance sheet accounts

-         Prepare, post and reconcile prepayments and accruals

-         Raising sales invoices

-         Responsible for Inter co invoices

-         Responsible for Intercompany reconciliation

-         Process and review Opex

-         Maintain fixed asset register

-         Compile and submit VAT

-         Uploading monthly reconciliations

-         Timesheet processing and reports

-         Ensure  sales invoices for project milestones are accurate, meet the customers’ requirements and are raised on time

-         Responsible to lead a team approach to Credit control and for providing meaningful reporting on debtor status and risk

-         Prepare and review financial models and proposals on an ad hoc basis to support the decision making process across a range of commercial issues

-         Develop and improve finance and project systems.

 Additional Activities (shared with other members of finance team):

-         Supplier authentication and set-up

-         Take on company-wide finance tasks as allocated from time to time

-         Support financial team providing day-to-day assistance as required

-         Assist in monthly and year end management/financial accounts and audit

-         Ad hoc financial analysis in support of the preparation of management accounts

 Knowledge and Skills required:

The ideal candidate will be / have:

-         Professionally  qualified (ACA, ACCA, ACMA) with at least 2 years post qualification experience. 

-         Strong organisational abilities, experience of working to tight deadlines and a hands on approach to finance.

-         Advanced Excel including Pivot tables, Look-up functions and similar is essential for all analysis and reporting duties

-         Deep knowledge of accounting principles, good understanding of financial/management information systems. Technically competent with finance and accounting knowledge and skills.

-         Strong analytical skills and the ability to adapt to and implement change.

-         High level of numeracy (Accounting/Maths/Statistics) and the ability to interpret management information

-         High computer literacy, with particular reference to accounting and management software and their application in a software / project environment.   

Personal Qualities

-         Approachable and professional

-         Ability to work flexible hours under pressure to tight time-scales.

-         Passionate and driven

-         Self motivated and energetic.

-         Flexible and adaptable – We believe in leading through learning

-         Good sense of humour, with the ability to create and maintain excellent communication between different stakeholders at all levels across the organisation