Description
A Major Bank are looking to hire an interim Finance Analyst/Project Accountant for a finance team focussing on significant regulatory projects based in their Edinburgh team. This would be an initial contract with a large book of work to be delivered against that should can offer long term work beyond the initial contract.
This role will be responsible for managing the ledger for a range of projects, ensuring that costs are always well understood both by the programme owners and within Group Functions Costs.
Key Responsibilities
- Interpret complex processes and manage the efficient and effective production of high quality output and analysis, anticipating stakeholder needs.
- Operate the cost processes including maintenance of ledger balances and reporting of results for the projects you are responsible for, ensuring a robust process that complies with all relevant group policies including governance and control.
- Deliver insightful cost analysis and reporting as part of the monthly reporting process, including highlighting potential risks to programme costs.
- Support the delivery of the benefits from the programme by developing and building a tracking process that ensures adherence at all times to the prescribed mechanisms and restrictions on what can be claimed.
- Identify cost-saving opportunities for the programme and work with the business to ensure delivery.
Desired skills:
- You are likely to be a part qualified accountant (not compulsory), with a track record of taking ownership for cost centre balances and controlling the ledger.
- Possess strong communication skills to explain the ledger position clearly to colleagues, both finance and non-finance at all levels of seniority.
- Previous experience of cost analysis and reporting.
- Confident being the first point of contact in Finance for project management colleagues
- You have already proved that you have the attention to detail to deliver accurate results and reports, operating the results process in a controlled manner while finding and implanting process improvements.