Cost Centre Controller Part-Qualified Accountant

Hays are looking for an experienced Cost Controller/ Finance Analyst to ensure that costs are thoroughly understood and tightly controlled. Your role will involve challenging the relevant cost centre managers in relation to their cost base and productivity levels and ensuring the sharing of best practice and initiatives across both your own areas of responsibility and those of other team members.
Assist in the management of the build, consolidation, and challenge of all financial plans.
Accountabilities & Activities:

• To ensure the provision of consistent and accurate information to the business in respect of all functional costs.
• Ensure that all costs are accurately captured in the correct cost centres & projects.
• To assist in the continual development and improvement of the reporting of the costs to the appropriate business managers.
• Produce monthly reports to the functional directorates and senior managers to strict deadlines.
• At year-end and half-year-end, we report on all significant accruals in relation to the cost base and provide supporting evidence and explanations to both financial accounts and the external auditors in relation to these accruals.
• Proactively seek process improvements to improve the accuracy and efficiency of month-end processes to meet tight deadlines.

Qualifications, Training & Experience:

• The successful candidate is likely to be part-qualified or have the equivalent level of experience within a finance environment.
• The jobholder will be expected to pursue a significant programme of personal development.
• Must be analytically and numerically minded.
• Advanced PC skills including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and accountancy software.
• Excellent customer service skills, including communication, management of expectations, recommendations, quality of outputs etc.
• The jobholder will be expected to proactively build and maintain relationships with all stakeholders.
• Graduate calibre.
• Proactive with a 'can do' approach.
• The successful candidate will have good commercial skills and the ability to adapt to the new environment quickly.
• Proven ability to work under pressure and meet stretching and tight deadlines.
• Some project experience would be desirable.
• Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills.

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