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Cost accountant

London
Investigo
Accountant
Posted: 21 June
Offer description

Cost Accountant
up to £53k depending on experience
6 month FTC
Hybrid - 3 days in the office

I am currently recruiting for an experienced Cost Accountant to join a Global Organisation to support with their Head Office Cost - specifically payroll cost management. This is a 6 month fixed term contract with the opportunity to go permanent for the right person. Due to the urgency of this requirement notice periods longer than 2 weeks cannot be considered.

If you have previous experience looking after head office costs - predominately payroll this is a distinct advantage.

Responsibilities will include:

* Produce a full set of management accounts for HO Central Costs in a timely manner, including commentary and variance analysis by department and cost line.
* Maintain and manage the Head Office balance sheet accruals ensuring accurate accruals postings and reporting for Head Office costs, including salaries and all associated costs.
* Provide analytical and commercial support and present variance analysis to support growth of business.
* Communicate risks and ops to the Finance Leadership Team.
* Produce monthly cost centre reports which provides good visibility of costs that enable budget holders to be held accountable for costs.
* Own and maintain the budgeting and forecasting process for Head Office costs with a clear audit trail, ensuring all budget holders are engaged with deadlines and requirements.
* Produce and maintain key analysis that supports the actuals, budgets and forecasts.
* Provide effective business partnering to budget holders mainly the Execs through regular meetings to discuss and challenge performance against budgets and forecasts.
* Deal with budget holder queries and requests effectively and efficiently.
* Manage Recharges


Candidate specification:

* At least 5 years experience working in a similar role
* Experience putting together a full set of management accounts, managing prepayments, accruals and journal postings
* Self sufficient - ability to work off your own initiative and be a problem solver
* Excellent attention to detail with strong stakeholder engagement skills
* Previous reporting experience - understanding budgeting and forecasting
* Looking after Head Office costs
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