Accounting Supervisor - Marylebone, Greater London, United Kingdom - AMS CWS

Description

we enable organisations to thrive in an age of constant change by building, re-shaping, and optimising workforces.

Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings; we act as an extension of our clients' recruitment team and provide professional interim and temporary resources.

Our investment banking client has been present in the UK for more than 150 years, they're a long-term partner to British business.

Their role is simply stated:
help clients achieve their goals by combining local know-how and global reach. Management Accountant
contract based in
hybrid).

The primary responsibility is to provide comprehensive management accounting/reporting services for Corporate & Institutional Banking Function areas to the territory/functional COO, direct reports, and cost centre managers.

As a Management Accountant, you will:
Liaise with management/internal clients/offshore team to obtain and validate all monthly information for the production of monthly expenses (principally expense accruals and prepayments)
Ensure correct input of budget information into bank financial systems, validate the result with the manager, and make or arrange corrections as agreed
Attend monthly meeting with COO/N-1s/SPOCs to brief them on the overall financial performance
Liaise with the CC managers, HR and with the Central Finance Reporting team to ensure consistency of all reported costs, headcount analysis, and commentaries
Reconcile and control check Central Finance figures with Local reporting P&L
Assist offshore team with coding issues on invoices
Perform SAP cost reviews for monthly closing
Prepare working and calculations for journals, and pass them to offshore team for processing
Provide ad hoc assistance as required with the annual budget/forecast process
Conduct IFRS 16 review of premises leases, instruct modification/creation of ROU assets, analyse monthly movements with trend
Relevant qualifications (CIMA / ACCA / ACA or equivalent) - fully or partly
Strong ability to interrogate, analyse, and interpret data, and produce variance analysis
The ability to deliver within tight deadlines and confidently present to senior management
Good understanding of IFRS 16 accounting
MS Office skills are essential, including working level knowledge of Excel macros
Strong ability to question and challenge the validity and accuracy of data or information received
Prior experience of cost accounting and preparation of management commentaries
Knowledge of General Ledger systems - essential (SAP)
Data management systems like Hyperion Essbase/Oracle Smartview experience - desirable
This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.