Junior Management Accountant

My Client a leading Media business in London is looking for a Junior Management Accountant to join their head office team

Reporting to the Financial Controller the Junior Management Accountant will be responsible for:

Purchase Orders

• Dealing with various queries relating to Purchase Requisitions and Orders while noting and resolving issues

Timesheets

• Reviewing the missing timesheet report and preparing a list of persons with missing timesheets and submitting list to Senior Management team to action.
• Dealing with timesheet queries.

Invoicing

• Raising PAF's (Project Acceptance Forms)
• Raising of Sales Invoices on the CSAP system. All sales invoices must be checked by the Financial Controller prior to despatch. To facilitate this process, providing a copy of the PAF or Contract Agreed by the client or Client Purchase Order.
• Provide Project Managers with copies of Sales Invoices on the same day of despatch to client.
• Timely raising of pre bills

Costing Budgets

• Determining billable and non-billable CSAP projects and maintaining contracts through CSAP
• Providing CCF and PE documents for Intercompany reporting
• Providing detailed job analysis along with COS and sales forecasts
• Assisting Project Accounting Manager, other finance team members & shared service centre when needed
• Reconciling costs from PROCIM to CSAP on a weekly basis and ensuring that the necessary adjustments are made within 24 hours of reconciliation.
• Ensure that the Project Forecast Gross Margin & Gross Profit is not less than the Budgeted Gross Margin & Gross Profit.
• Forecast potential revenue losses or gains
• Ensure that any potential cost overruns are communicated on a timely basis to the Project Owner, and in turn to the Project Accounting Manager for review.
• Managing foreign exchange movements on budgets

Reconciling Projects

• Reconciling CSAP project costs to PROCIM Costing Worksheet ; ensuring Final margin and profit is approved by Project Owner & Project Accounting Manager prior to TECO or FNBL on CSAP

• Other Adhoc Reports and Tasks when covering other members of the team

• Approval of Supplier's Invoices within a timely and regular fashion - the majority of invoices should be cleared within 5 working days (including all tasks undertaken to resolve variances between invoices and purchase orders).

• Expert PROCIM user ensuring assistance is given to members of project teams and issues investigated and resolved.

• The Assistant Accountant is accountable for late cost accruals which are recommended at completion and financial reconciliation of projects

Successful candidates will have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a management accounts, candidates must have had experience with WIP, billing and revenue. Candidates will be part qualified in ACCA / CIMA and have a desire to progress within a growing business.