Summary:
Our client, a leading energy consultancy, is looking for an Accruals Manager to join their team due to continued growth. As the Accruals Manager, you will manage a portfolio of company accounts and ensure accurate financial reporting is delivered consistently to clients using their market-leading in-house systems. If you are data driven, confident in presenting reports to clients and have a great understanding of the billing cycle, commodity, non-commodity costs – apply today!!
Key responsibilities of the Accruals Manager:
1. Lead the creation of period cost and accrual reports for clients, incorporating factors like property changes, COTs, and addressing any discrepancies.
2. Work alongside the Treasury team in ensuring the client facing system and the accounting systems are in alignment.
3. Take charge of developing budgets for clients, demonstrating strategic financial planning capabilities.
4. Execute system reports meticulously, ensuring data integrity and completeness, while efficiently organizing workloads to meet reporting deadlines and exceed client expectations.
5. Design and implement customized reports, elevating data accuracy and operational efficiency, and present period numbers and movement explanations to clients virtually and in person.
6. Elevate customer service and satisfaction levels, actively measuring and implementing improvements in a managerial capacity.
7. Showcase adeptness in liaising across internal teams, ensuring cohesive collaboration to fulfil accrual and budget requirements with a strong managerial focus.
Skills, knowledge and experience required for the Accruals Manager:
8. Minimum 3 years experience within a similar role for an energy consultancy/ brokerage
9. Data driven and knowledge/ experience of cost charging/accrual generation, billing cycle, commodity & non-commodity cost and financial reporting.
10. Excellent communicator and confident in presenting reports to clients
11. Experience in cost and consumption reporting and budgeting and forecasting
12. Experience in managing multiple workload and stakeholders
13. Finance & Business acumen
14. High level of competency with Office applications - Word, PowerPoint and especially Excel
15. Proactive and think outside the box
16. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
17. Excellent listening and reflective skills
18. Works well under pressure