This is an excellent opportunity for an immediately available accountant with a financial planning background to assist in the group budget process on a contract basis.

Client Details

My client are a highly acquisitive business that are market leaders in their field

Description

The main responsibilities in this role are:

• Plan with the Senior Financial Planning Accountant & Head of Operations to ensure budgets are delivered on time and to company specifications.
• Communication is key as a core part of this role is delivering training for non-finance staff on how to use the budget templates - via on-line training and group sessions.
• You will be the first contact point for providing guidance and support. An ability to communicate financial information to non-finance staff is key.
• Adherence to deadlines are key to the success of the project. You will lead stakeholders to submit a budget to set deadlines.
• You will co-ordinate budget review sessions with the Operations team to ensure each budget submitted is reviewed and where necessary challenged to ensure quality and achievability.
• To track progress, the budget models must reconcile to reported group results. This data will be updated during the process as new results are delivered.
• Populating and building / refreshing models.
• Project work as allocated by the Senior Financial Planning Accountant.

Profile

The successful candidate for this role will have:

• Ideally an accountancy qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) but QBE candidates will be considered
• Confidence in presenting, especially to large groups of people.
• Strong communication skills and ability to provide training to non-finance people.
• Previous budgeting experience.
• Ability to collaborate with many different stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing environment.
• Excellent IT skills including strong excel.
• Confidence working with various management reporting systems.
• Strong attention to detail, and able to deliver right-first-time results quickly without getting lost in the detail.
• Deadline focused, and willing to put in the effort required to ensure these are always met.

Job Offer

A competitive salary and a quick start for the successful candidate, so this candidate must be available at short notice. Please note that this is a fixed term contract so no day rate candidates will be considered. As this role develops the expectation will be to be available for work onsite.