Management Accountant
- Recruiter
- Capita Executive
- Location
- England, Lancashire, Darwen
- Salary
- £28000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
- Posted
- 26 Oct 2016
- Closes
- 02 Nov 2016
- Ref
- PCK392-205078
- Contact
- Jane Gorse
- Job Title
- Part Qualified
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
About Capita
We are the UK's leading provider of business process management and integrated professional support service solutions, with 68,000 staff across the UK, Europe, South Africa and India.
This is a high profile role working within the Capita Finance Department, for a Part Qualified Management Accountant. You will work closely with other departments to support their staff with all finance related activities as well as assisting other members of the finance team in ensuring the strict month end deadlines are achieved.
Main Responsibilities:
- Payroll reconciliations are checked with all significant variances being investigated and where necessary forecasts are adjusted accordingly.
- Review forecast vacancies and liaises with the relevant departments to check against recruitment process.
- Check all overtime, commission and bonus calculations ahead of submission and against forecast, explain significant variances
- Review monthly accruals for reasonableness, consistency and ageing
- Monitor expenditure on hotel, travel and other discretionary spend categories
- Assist the senior management accountant with the development of financial models that support the business.
- Support the financial controller as part of the month end reporting process.
- Support the use of the time recording system across the business as necessary and develop reports that aid the analysis of resources for specific projects
- Work with the operation and facilities teams to check quotes, challenge work and consider alternatives.
- Validate facilities spend against main supplier contract
- Day to day responsibility for ensuring facilities tasks are achieved.
- Produce capex submissions and monitor spend against agreed milestones
- Work closely with the Field team to produce court Income calculations and analyse variances to forecast
- Reconcile 3rd party support agreements during novation process
- Ensures the main contractual supplier invoicing process is adhered to
Qualifications and skills essential for the role:
- Accounting background (studying towards a professional Finance Qualification )
- Excellent knowledge of MS Excel
- Good knowledge of accounting standards
- Able to communicate and build strong working relationships at all levels
- The ability and willingness to quickly understand, apply and work to improve processes and systems.
- Ability to challenge the way information is presented and suggest alternatives
- Excellent attention to detail with an ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Able to use initiative (and advice of others) to identify new solutions.
- Ability to manage own workload and prioritise effectively
- Knowledge of SAP and Axiom would be advantageous
Effective Communication
- Raise any issues through appropriate channels
- Communicates new ideas appropriately
- Communicates effectively and appropriately in groups, such as meetings, training sessions and workshops
- Maintains confidentiality at all times when dealing with business or commercial sensitive information.
- Presents financial information in a format that is readily understood by non-finance functions.
What's in it for you?
At Capita, training and development aren't optional extras: they're how we do our job. We will motivate you to perform at your peak, recognising your achievements and rewarding them appropriately. As well as a generous basic salary we also give you 23 day's holiday, A full expenses Study support Package, company pension scheme and access to voluntary benefit options including; child care vouchers, share save scheme, life assurance, holiday buy and many more designed to suit your own personal lifestyle. We will offer you excellent career opportunities and reward you accordingly.
Capita Resourcing welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of gender, race, disability, age or sexual orientation.
Capita Resourcing is a trading name of Capita Resourcing Ltd. Services offered are those of an Employment Agency and Employment Business. Applicants will be required to register with us.