Support the Head of Expenses with the monthly Expense reporting and annual budgeting process.
The role
The main tasks are but not limited to:
- Collaborate with other internal functions to produce budget vs Actual departmental expense reports.
- Conducted cost analysis and provided insights to support decision-making.
- Analyse variances between actual and budgeted figures.
- Monitor and report on performance against the budget.
- Help with the production of quarterly Executive expense packs
Working with the Accounts Payable Manager to deliver a timely and accurate month-end close. The main tasks are but not limited to:
- Review outsourced teams' coding and Journal, ensuring accuracy and compliance with company standards.
- Assist with bank and balance sheet reconciliations
- Complete Month-end closure journals when required
- Prepare monthly accrual posting
- Review monthly fixed asset schedules and review journals
- Run and maintain the service company trial balance
- Other ad-hoc tasks as required
Skills and competencies
- Communication (oral) – ability to communicate well one-to-one and in small groups. Keeps others informed and updated
- Attention to detail
- Communication (written) – ability to write clear, precise, and well organised documents
- Relationship building – establish and maintain good working relationships with internal and external parties
- Proactivity – ability to use own initiative in starting tasks and solving problems
- Organisational skills – ability to deliver on tasks and meet deadlines
- Problem solving skills – ability to analyse a situation and provide a solution with minimal direction
- Flexibility / Adaptability – ability to cope effectively with complexity and change
- Prioritisation and attention to detail – must have excellent skills in both of these competencies
- Team Player – ability to work well in a team as well as on own initiative
- Analytical skills – ability to understand and provide concise explanation of the information analysed
Qualifications
- AAT or Accounting and Finance Degree essential
- Minimum 1 years’ experience
- Work towards professional accounting qualifications with provided study support
Experience
- Knowledge of Prepayments, fixed assets and reconciliations necessity
- Intermediate Excel skills including pivot tables, linking and filtering essential
This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.
Work requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Ability to work effectively in an office, hybrid, or remote work environment for 40+ hours per week (including sitting, standing, and working on a computer for extended periods of time).
- Ability to communicate effectively in a collaborative work environment utilizing various technologies such as: telephone, computer, web, voice, teleconferencing, e-mail, etc.
- Ability to travel as required.
