Description
Management Accountant, Dunfermline
£19.00 to £25.00 per hour
You will be responsible for providing clear and relevant financial information and analysis to the clients business teams to enable them to track, understand, forecast and effectively control costs.
You will:
Support the business team in planning ahead and setting financial performance targets for business plans, annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.
Develop new tracking reports and analysis to strengthen control of project costs and enhance understanding of whole life costs.
Develop new ways of capturing and presenting financial and non-financial information (eg: linking costs to activities; developing new performance reports).
Support and coach the business team in financial policy, processes and controls.
You must have a relevant accountancy qualification, be part way through study for this or be able to demonstrate equivalent qualification by experience'. You'll need a strong grasp of accounting principles and management accounting techniques.
You must be able to:
Analyse data and turn it into information - you'll need to review cost data, relate it to what's driving those costs, look for trends and correlations and make sure that your conclusions are robust and clearly articulated.
Use IT tools effectively in most things you do, in particular have strong excel skills and a knowledge of Peoplesoft or equivalent financial system.
Work agilely and effectively in a team and across teams contributing beyond your individual day to day responsibilities to deliver ad-hoc improvement projects.
It would be an advantage to have experience of activity based analysis of costs and/or implementing new reporting tools (eg: performance dashboards/scorecards or equivalent).
Parity - Source, Develop, Transform
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