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Senior Accountant - ACCA, CIMA, ACA Qualified / Qualified By Experience / Blackburn - Lancashire / Permanent Role / Career Progression / Growing International Organisation / Salary £50,000 - £53,000 + Benefits
Senior Finance Manager Benefits:
- Salary £50,000 - £53,000
- Free Parking
- Hybrid Working 2 Days Office
- Permanent Opportunity
- Excellent Working Environment
NC Associates are working exclusively with a forward thinking and growing organisation based in Blackburn to help recruit a Senior Accountant on a permanent basis to assist the Senior Finance Manager and senior finance team in delivering robust financial information to support the growth of the business. As a Senior Accountant you will be responsible for all aspects of accounting delivering budgets and forecasting to senior stakeholders. This role covers the financial management of all overhead departments within the organisation.
Senior Accountant Duties
- Work in conjunction with overhead department heads to ensure maximum profitability by challenging spend and headcount to identify and deliver opportunities.
- Lead monthly overhead reviews to discuss and review costs in month plus expected spend to the year end.
- Ensure overhead cost owners understand the cost drivers in their area and are accountable and empowered to influence them.
- Act as finance point of contact for any overhead related activity, including analysis for overhead leads, and Group reporting.
- Ensure integrity of information within monthly overhead packs, reconciling actuals and forecasts to source documents / systems.
- Lead all overhead month end reporting:
- Summary of P&L overheads position at monthly accounts review
- Presentation of monthly position for CFO and MD review.
- Explanations of under and over-spends in the period and expected future performance against budget/forecast.
- Work closely with the accounting department to ensure quality of the financial data and adherence to the month end timetable. In particular, managing accruals and prepayments of overhead costs at the month end.
- Ensure all overhead related manual accruals and prepayments held on the balance sheet are valid and well supported with backup and commentary
- Create and maintain Budget / Forecasts templates and help overhead teams to complete them.
- Consolidate & make preliminary review of overhead budget & forecasts for CFO review.
- Bridge budget /forecast to latest comparator including narrative on investments, overhead strategy and drivers for variances.
- Prepare and present presentation materials that summarise the forecast / budget and any variances to last version.
- Support the Sales team with Sales Order reporting, including weekly Flash reports, monthly order intake reports, and a live projection to year end.
- Meet Group reporting requirements for order intake and order backlog reporting, and validate order backlog throughout the year
- Support the production of sales order targets each year.
- Support the bid team with bid spend reporting and associated booking code management.
- Support the wider Controlling team as required
Experience Required
To be successful in your application for this role you MUST have the following experience
- ACCA/CIMA Qualified (or equivalent) or qualified by experience
- Relevant experience; ideally 5 years:
- Experience of budgeting and forecasting, particularly challenging stakeholders on the robustness of their forecast
- Experience financially managing overhead cost centres
- Experience of financially managing P&Ls
- Experience of computerised accounting systems necessary; knowledge of IFS will be valuable but is not essential
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills and experience in data manipulation
- Ability to communicate complex finance information clearly and concisely to a non-finance audience.
- Ability to balance various priorities and deadlines to deliver this role in an autonomous way
What's on Offer?
This is a excellent opportunity to work for a growing organisation which will give you lots of commercial exposure as well as as offering a clear opportunity to build on your experience, they also offer a market leading salary and benefits package with long term development opportunities. Please contact me for a confidential chat or email or call 07879-626501
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