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 team in Warwick as part of the brands wide reaching business functions.
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. The role also includes monthly financial reporting and inputs to the month-end accounting process.
Qualifications & Experience Required
- Fully qualified accountant or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience of adding value to Month End Process
- Strong Budgeting, Reporting, Forecasting and Planning skills
- Commercial Experience of working in a Management Accountancy capacity or similar by experience
Business Skills
- Customer focus
- Stakeholder management
- Team working and relationships
- Business acumen
- Performance excellence
Technical Capabilities
- Reporting financial information
- Accounting and reporting pronouncements
- Planning, forecasting and budgeting
- Transactions and close process management
- Business partnering
- SAP
- Business Warehouse
- Business Software and Applications
- Codeblock
Key Accountabilities
- 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.
- Support Finance/Process Managers in establishing, maintaining and monitoring the financial control framework, ensuring compliance with all appropriate controls including those required for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
- Support relevant business stakeholders in understanding and quantifying the financial risks and opportunities for their respective areas.
- Proactively contribute to the development of a highly motivated, innovative and customer-focused finance team. Support Finance/Process Managers in meeting/exceeding all relevant targets and strategic objectives within the business unit(s).
- As appropriate, to support the delivery of change across Finance and the business, embracing new ways of working and owning delivery of key outcomes to drive the improvement of long-term business capability.
- Build own knowledge of RIIO and its impact on the industry and the business in order to support key decisions and advise and guide relevant stakeholders in own business area.