Role accountabilities and responsibilities
Routine Accounting
- Accrued and deferred income posting.
- Approval of month end journals including accruals, prepayments and payroll.
- Posting cost reallocations.
- Balance sheet reconciliation.
- Posting, reconciliation and forecasting of income.
- VAT return and reconciliation.
- Ensure the accuracy of the Fixed Asset Register.
Reporting, budgeting and forecasting
- Manage the production of the monthly management accounts.
- Provision of financial analysis and variance analysis.
- Business partnering with an Executive member and their Divisional managers on monthly management accounts.
- Manage budgeting and forecasting.
- Manage audit.
- Assist with Statutory financial statements preparation.
- Assist with the annual Office for Students financial return.
Financial systems
- Investigate transactional issues in relevant systems.
- Update finance systems with new codes/analysis codes.
- Provide support and training to end users e.g. in purchase ordering.
General
- Line management of the Management Accounts Team, including two Finance Analysts and an Assistant Accountant, whose ACCA studies will need to be supervised and supported.
- Profitability analysis assisting financial resilience and business optimisation.
- Provide support when required to members of the wider finance team.
- Undertake other duties of similar nature which fall within the scope of the post which may be required from time to time.