Description:
To play a key role in the department meeting its internal and external reporting requirements; ensuring reports are accurate and produced in a timely manner and to assist other areas of the business in improving key metrics and performance (business partnering).
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Preparation of monthly management accounts including journal postings
- Month end journals and adjustments
- Review and preparation of provisions
- Month end business unit reporting including pricing analysis
Costing and inventory
- Reconcile inventory accounts
- Review standard costs and investigate significant variances
Short term forecasting
- Preparation of weekly short term forecast and comparison to previous submissions
Long term forecasting
- Assisting with annual budget process, including internal reporting required
- Liaise with cost centre managers for completion of accurate budgets
Cost centre reporting
- Reviewing cost centres for errors or anomalies
- Monthly reporting to cost centre managers including variance analysis
Management of Business Intelligence tool
- Reconciliation of the data to reported numbers
- Updating master data as and when required
- Ensuring data accuracy and completeness
Business partnering with Operations
- Review of cycle count variances and processes, assisting with corrective actions
- Review of aged works orders, investigating root causes and potential resolution
- Annual productivity audit to ensure capital expenditure is achieving promised efficiencies
Balance sheet reconciliations
- Assist with internal and external audits
- Supervise and assist Accounts Assistants on an ad hoc basis
- Support the Finance Manager and BU Controller as required
- Ad hoc duties as required
Qualifications/Skills/Experience
- Part/newly qualified CIMA/ACCA
- Strong IT Skills (Excel) and knowledge of Infor LN would be desirable, but not essential.
- Previous experience of working in a Finance function, ideally in a manufacturing environment
- Experience of standard costing
- Experience of both US GAAP and UK GAAP
- Proactive and able to work unsupervised, and as part of a team
- Able to demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness
- Comfortable dealing with non finance professionals of all levels