Description
Management Accountant - 6 months - Warwick - Negotiable Daily Rate
A leading Energy and Utilities client of Pontoon is looking for a Management Accountant to join their site in Warwick.
Job Purpose:-
To provide comprehensive financial advice and support to one or more business functions or companies, ensuring appropriate financial control with a particular emphasis on timely, accurate and complete reporting and appropriate business planning, budgeting and forecasting. Includes monthly financial reporting and inputs to the month-end accounting process.
Experience Required
- Fully qualified accountant or equivalent professional experience.
- Business Skills
- Customer focus
- Stakeholder management
- Team working and relationships
- Business acumen
- Performance excellence
- Provide accountancy services and financial insight to Finance and business managers, acting as business partners for defined business areas as required.
- Provide financial analysis and evaluation, including building robust budgets and forecasts.
- Deal with complex and non-standard ad-hoc requests in order to support the achievement of the business unit's objectives.
- Undertake the month end process, ensuring the data used is consistent and accurate, the appropriateness of all inputs and outputs, and the completeness, consistency and accuracy of all data.
- Ensure accounting entries are appropriately classified in accordance with internal policy, accounting standards, nature of expenditure or form of control.
- Compile and produce financial performance reports, including Flash reports, the 'blue book' monthly reports, RRP reports and reports for Investor Relations.
- Ensure reporting is relevant, timely and accurate. Provide insightful commentaries which adequately explain any data variances.
- Provide financial analysis and data/information services to the investment paper process through sanction to closure and financial insight to Finance and business managers, acting as business partners for defined business areas as required.