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Financial Controller/Accountant

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Gesuchte Skills: Support, Controller

Projektbeschreibung

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER FOR LARGE CORPORATE WITH EXPERIENCE IN SHARED SERVICES (SSC). IMMEDIATE START PAYING UP TO £500 PER DAY FOR 6 MONTHS.

Our client's IT Division is a global function that looks to maintain develop and enhance the organisation's estate. The UK finance organisation within IT is responsible for financial control, cost management, monthly reporting, the budgeting and forecasting process and decision support across a number of IT cost centres. The IT organisation is undergoing significant positive change and this role is key in helping to drive the financial benefits of this.

To provide business partnering responsibility across UK IT, to the Group CIO and his leadership team:

- To provide the Group CIO and his UK leadership team with end-to-end financial/business partner support, including decision support and commercial challenge where there is a cost and financial control implication;
- Ensuring effective financial control and oversight of key finance processes, including month end close and reporting (including oversight of balance sheet and cash control) and owning the IT element of group wide cost allocation, budgeting and forecasting process.

Daily tasks

OVERALL REQUIREMENT

The primary purpose of the role is to provide finance support, challenge and financial improvement within the UK IT organisation.

More specifically this includes:

- Responsibility for the month end close and reporting process, ensuring reporting deadlines are met and submissions are accurate and the results are understood within the IT organisation and the UK SBUs. This also includes ensuring there is effective financial control over the balance sheet, including cash control;
- Responsibility for the budgeting and forecasting process and for ensuring there is a robust financial challenge to what is submitted;
- Providing an all-round business partner service to the UK IT leadership; team and ensuring ownership is taken for fixing any finance related issues affecting IT;
- Ensuring the finance agenda is driven within the wider IT organisation and that the UK leadership is aware of finance goals and has the information it requires to track against these with regular finance reviews;
- Playing a leadership role in identifying cost savings and ensuring there are plans in place for these to be tracked to completion;
- Ensure that finance is involved and represented on key decisions that affect cash, costs or have any impact on financial control and that we become a trusted business partner to the UK IT leadership team;
- Ensuring that, where necessary, costs are accurately allocated to the correct SBU and/or project;
- Given the amount of change within IT over the next 2 years, there will be a need to be able to ensure that the finance service offered adapts and is pro-active in this changing environment;
- Providing management and development to a small team to help achieve points 1 to 8 above.

Who will employee engage with on a daily schedule?

- IT leadership team including the Group CIO;
- Wider IT organisation as and when required;
- Finance Director - Enabling Functions;
- Relevant staff within the Accounting Services teams;
- Other finance managers and directors across the BB organisation, in particular those within the UK SBUs.

Both desirable and essential

- Qualified accountant (ACA/ACMA/CIMA or equivalent) with significant PQE achieved in a large corporate organisation;
- Experience of driving positive change in a finance organisation;
- Strong accounting and month end skills and experience, with a sound understanding of all aspects of balance sheet control;
- Strong knowledge of the key finance processes and how it is possible to optimise these with a view to reducing costs;
- Practical knowledge and experience of managing a budgeting and reforecasting process within a large corporate;
- Experience of managing a team;
- Previous business partnering experience.

Projektdetails

  • Vertragsart:

    Contract

  • Berufserfahrung:

    Keine Angabe

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