Cost Accountant

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