Management Accountant

Somerset  ‐ Onsite
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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Management Accountant to work within Central Government on a contract basis. This position is based in Bristol, initially until October 2017 offering up to £415 per day umbrella company.

Main Duties:

Provide Business Partnering tasks for some budget holders, this will include monthly meetings with budget holder, advice, support and challenge performance and agree a forecast for the financial year. The forecast will be reviewed and agreed by the Finance Business Partner
Manage month end tasks, this will include a review and agreement of monthly accruals and prepayments with key directorate staff. A review of actual transactions prior to the closure of the ledger and management of corrective action by posting journal transfers
Conduct monthly analysis of actual transactional data to recognise trends in income or expenditure and identify budget variances. Liaise with the relevant Finance Business partners to present your findings and where necessary provide information to budget holders to aid the forecasting process
Manage the salary forecast for the specific directorates, based on information provided by the Finance Business Partner, actual ledger transactions and newly approved staff changes from the Central Reporting team. Analysis will be carried out on actual salary costs, to identify MIS-postings and recharges where required. The forecast salary by post and cost centre will be based on the forecast headcount (as agreed by the Finance Business partner).
Manage the recording of all forecasting data on behalf of the Finance Business partner, conducting reconciliation between the various forecast reports and ensuring agreement with the Business partner prior to month end.
Maintain manual reports required by the Business partner for the recording of actual cost centre balances following the closure of the ledger. Data will be obtained directly from the Finance system(s) and will be reconciled to budget holder reports issued by the Central reporting team.
To liaise with the other Management Accountants to provide consistency across the three roles. This will include, the agreement of salary forecasting for newly recruited posts (eg use of average salary).

The Management Accountant role will provide general support to the relevant Finance Business Partners by arranging and attending meetings with budget holders. The post holder will be required to cover tasks such as agreement of forecasting in the absence of the Finance Business Partner at key dates during the month.

Essential Experience:
Experience of using a Financial system
Conveying financial information to non-finance colleagues
Good oral and written communication skills
Financial analysis skills - ability to interpret financial data to identify variances and trends
Experience of building and maintaining internal relationships across the business (with non-finance colleagues)

Desirable Experience:
Experience of SAP and Oracle Financial systems
Experience of conducting month end tasks within a finance environment
Previous experience of Management Accounting, including building and maintaining relationships with budget holders
Knowledge of accounting processes such as Payables and Receivables

For any urgent queries please contact Rebecca Eaton (see below)

Start date
n.a
From
Interaction Recruitment PLC
Published at
12.05.2017
Project ID:
1342270
Contract type
Freelance
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