Cost Accountant Lead

The JobA maternity cover for 18 months. Reporting to Head of Management Accounting and working within a dynamic team environment. Hybrid working.Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare accurate monthly Management Accounts with relevant insights and commentary (P&L, Balance Sheet and cash flow)
• Reconciliations and verify the accuracy of the management account, and perform monthly, quarterly, and year to date variance analysis to budgets/forecasts and prior year on P&L.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations
• Monitor KPIs, P&L, balance sheet, identifying variances and recommending areas for improvement.
• Business partner with the wider business heads for overhead and cost centre reporting and budget/forecast discussions
• Manage the delivery of and consolidated monthly management accounts from an overhead perspective
• Work closely with FP&A to align actuals with forecast
• Act as a proactive cost partner across multiple teams, including, Technical, Treasury and senior finance leadership
• Mentor the Cost Accountant

The businessA dynamic and fast paced organisation About You

• Qualified Accountant is preferred; ACA, ACCA, CIMA
• Experience of presenting financial information to senior stakeholders
• High attention to detail
• Background in services organisations with multiple entities