Senior Management Accountant

Senior Management Accountant

SE1

£53,000-56,000

Full-Time Permanent

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday
• Pension - Salary sacrifice, 4%EE 5%ER
• Life Assurance
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Private Medical Insurance (post successful probation)
• Private Dental Insurance (post successful probation)
• Eye tests
• Season Ticket loan (post successful probation)
• Local Area discounts - Bankside Buzz
• Perks at work, Uni shop and SAS emp. purchase programme - discounts and offers for employees
• Daily Breakfast Concession
• Birthday day off
• Study support and options
• Flu Voucher
• Employee Assistance Programme - including dedicated mental health support

Exciting opportunity for a Senior Management Accountant. You will ensure complete monthly, quarterly and yearly financial reporting is completed and delivered accurately by the given deadlines, encompasses US reporting and UK Statutory reporting including tax.

Key Responsibilities as Senior Management Accountant:

Monthly P & L and Balance Sheet

• Determine month end timetable for all contributors to ensure Group reporting deadlines are met
• Produce monthly P & L including commentary on all material variances.
• Prepare and process month end journals/reclassifications.
• Upload and submission of the monthly Hyperion management accounts.
• Ability to analyse accounts and understand activity within the month.
• Perform reconciliations from the general ledger to the management accounts
• Review and lead reporting deliverables from the outsourced team
• Preparation of additional information required by the client under quarterly reporting requirements
• Ensure commercial team provides necessary information for inclusion in month end numbers
• Liaise with commercial team on any areas of the management accounts under their control
• Produce departmental P & L statements and present a synopsis to various key stake holders, as required
• Identify areas where costs can be controlled and communicate these with department heads
• Analysis of the Balance Sheet position and explanation of variances against budget and previous quarters
• Perform reconciliations from the general ledger to the management account balances
• Completion of all monthly and quarterly information requests and templates within and external to Hyperion
• Cash flow modelling
• Completion of the quarterly tax pack and liaison with the client’s tax
• Co-ordination of necessary management review and sign off
• Production of month end files for sign off
• Co-ordination of monthly working capital reporting
• Follow SSC internal controls processes and ensure S-Box compliance

Salary Related

• Responsibility for the reconciliation of payroll to the general ledger and preparation of monthly salary journals
• Reconciliation of monthly payroll to rolling budget
• Reporting of headcount on a monthly basis
• Reporting of Freelancer/Employee Benefit/Employee Taxes/Recruitment and other compensation
• P & L captions on a monthly basis, as required
• Ensure that agency compensation costs are reported accurately
• Produce all salary related captions and ensure that all salary related balance sheet accounts are fully reconciled.
• Ensure compliance with the extensive quarterly reporting and other ad hoc requirements required by the client.
• Responsible for the annual PSA calculation and submission

Statutory reporting

• Prepare the year-end financial statements under UK GAAP and associated documents
• Prepare reconciliation to US GAAP figures
• Prepare the year-end statutory tax package
• Liaise with auditors

Planning

• Assist agency finance in producing annual budgets and monthly reforecasts
• Prepare different models/scenarios as required
• Prepare quarterly forecasts with actual and forward looking budget
• Take ownership of overhead cost budgeting in conjunction with agency
• Liaise with operations to finalise headcount and salary related budgets
• Prepare supporting analysis and Hyperion formats
• Monitor capex spend against budget and calculate profit/loss on disposal

Other duties:

• Calculation, analysis and coordination of recharges for selected entities
• Responsible for VAT and other submissions as required to HMRC on a quarterly basis and timely payments to HMRC
• Completion of internal questionnaires - VAT, payroll and Corporation tax and resolve follow up queries
• Additional reporting e.g. carbon footprint, key supplier reporting
• Seek to improve processes and main a robust control environment
• Prepare ad hoc analysis and assist with ad hoc projects based on skills and experience

Person Specification:

• Ideally part qualified (as a minimum) CIMA, ACCA, ACA
• Double entry bookkeeping knowledge is essential in this role
• Strong working knowledge of Excel
• Experience of Hyperion is beneficial but not essential
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics AX is beneficial but not essential
• Excellent analytical skills
• Takes pride in great work
• Able to prioritise workload

• Delivers results
• Takes responsibility of timely delivery to deadlines
• Quick to learn and adaptable to changing work allocation and environment
• Pro-active and with a can-do attitude
• Able to handle tasks and drive results without close supervision
• A team player who actively supports others around them but also with ability to work independently
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Able to communicate at all levels

Disclaimer: Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles, unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants within 14 days then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.