Senior Accountant
ID5.io
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Ensure accurate financial reporting and support decision-making through analysis of revenue, costs, and profitability
- Produce monthly management accounts for the UK business units and ensure timely review of P&Ls with operational heads
- Collate commentary and insight alongside the business partnering team and provide to the SMA following monthly review meetings
- Drive the budgeting process for relevant division, building budgets from rolling forecast information and supporting stakeholders' assumptions
- Support profitability analysis and manage customer profitability reporting processes
- Responsible for balance sheet reconciliation sign-off for relevant business units and highlight risks and opportunities to the Senior Management Accountant
- Support year-end audit and liaise with external auditors for relevant areas of responsibility
- Support corporate governance and financial control and maintain accounting process and control documentation
- Ensure regular reporting cycle targets are adhered to
- Coach, mentor and shape the development of assistant management accountants where applicable
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis to aid decision making
Requirements
- Professional qualification in accounting (e.g., ACCA, CIMA)
- Proven experience in management accounting roles, demonstrating a strong financial background
- Experience in month-end processes, ensuring accurate revenue posting and resolving exceptional items promptly
- Ability to manage customer rebate accruals and consolidate performance across various business units
- Strong analytical skills for post month-end duties, including supplier contract reporting and ad-hoc analysis
- Proficiency in interpreting financial data to provide meaningful insights and forecasts
- Experience in reconciling and analysing granular cost data for accurate customer profitability reporting
- Familiarity with automated rules for revenue reporting, ensuring functionality and troubleshooting as needed
- Proven ability to liaise effectively with cross-functional teams, specifically Service Delivery Managers and IT Projects stakeholders
- Clear and concise communication skills, facilitating explanations for changes in customer profitability trends
- Demonstratable adaptability to evolving processes and changing dynamics in revenue and cost structures
- Commitment to continuous improvement, actively contributing to the development of the customer profitability process
