Managing Accountant FPandA

As a Managing Accountant FPandA you will conduct detailed financial analyses to inform strategic decisions and interventions, while also collaborating on consolidated reports and forecasts. Additionally, it entails facilitating the annual budgeting process, integrating data from various business units to align with overarching goals and long-term strategies, as well as supporting the modeling and execution of growth initiatives.

Description

As a Managing Accountant FPandA you will:

• Working with assigned business partners to develop an understanding of departmental goals, then translating these into financial targets and budgets.
• Building the annual budget for nominated departments and securing buy-in from key stakeholders.
• Producing regular forecasts using business knowledge of current performance trends.
• Gathering data for the production of longer-term forecasting.
• Generating standardised management reports that provide insightful performance analysis in a timely manner.
• Assist with the preparation of presentations in support of board and shareholder meetings, leadership meetings and various strategic committees of the company.
• Carrying out financial analysis to investigate deviations from target performance, working with the business partners to initiate timely interventions
• Gaining a deep understanding of the cost levers underpinning financial performance and sharing this with business partners to initiate improvements where possible.
• Developing skills to utilise the ERP system and other supporting tools to automate as much reporting as possible, freeing up more time for analysis.
• Modelling business cases based on input from colleagues with technical and commercial responsibilities, providing well documented transparent input assumptions and output results.
• Meeting with business partners on a regular basis to build successful relationships, resulting in better business knowledge and increased commercial acumen.
• Collaborating with other team members to maintain a high performing finance function.
• Seeking opportunities to continually develop skills and management accounting expertise.