KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsibility for the vertical management accounts, profit and loss and controllable cash flow of each assigned Profit Centre
- Drive performance, margin and accountability improvement throughout the vertical in conjunction with operations staff while fostering a continuous improvement culture. Develop an understanding of key business levers that drive contribution margin and proactively contribute to margin improvement initiatives.
- Monitoring performance and reporting variances to budget and prior year
- Develop and update appropriate KPIs across the vertical in conjunction with internal operations and resourcing planning teams with a view to fostering a culture of accountability
- Ensuring the completeness and accuracy of billing – striving for ‘on-time’ and ‘first time’ billing; routine reconciliation of hours paid to hours charged
- Ensure client adheres to payment terms, following up on any late invoices.
- Ensuring the on-time delivery of day to day Finance related tasks across the vertical
- Development and ownership of vertical budgeting, reforecasting and strategic planning with comparisons to prior year and budget / reforecast
- Identifying, reporting and actioning control deficiencies where necessary
- Ensuring that deadlines are met, and standard operating procedures improved where necessary
- Ensure processes are audited, reviewed and improved as required
- Build positive working relationships across the organisation
- Support innovation by developing strategies and creating opportunities to elicit new ideas from members of the business
REQUIREMENTS:
- 2 years accountancy experience in a commercial environment
- Professional qualification in the field of accountancy (ACA, ACCA, ACMA or equivalent)
- Knowledge of CRM, ERP and Microsoft applications
- Experience with budgeting, cost estimation and analysis and fiscal management principals and procedures
- Demonstrated management reporting experience
- Willingness to work at own initiative
- Experience in identifying, assessing and developing margin opportunities to improve performance
- Experience managing multiple projects with competing priorities
- Demonstrated track record of managing to performance targets
- Good commercial acumen
