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Client Reporting Accountant
| Posting date: | 08 January 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 January 2025 |
| Location: | London, London, EC3V 0AS |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | OCS Group (UK) Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 29713_1736354962 |
Summary
About The Company:
OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with a turnover of £1.7bn and 50,000+ colleagues. We deliver innovative, award-winning services to the public and private sectors and our mission is to make people and places the best they can be.This role sits within our Finance department which provides support services to the wider OCS Group and our front-line colleagues.
Working at OCS is more than just a job; it's an amazing opportunity to begin or expand your career in Facilities Management. OCS has an ambition to become an 'Employer of choice' in our sector and is proud to invest in our colleague's personal and professional development. OCS provides our colleagues with opportunities to gain qualifications through funded development programmes aligned to the knowledge, skills and behaviours attached to their roles.
About The Role:
Days of Working: Monday to Friday
Role Overview
We are currently recruiting for a Client Reporting Accountant to join our passionate and driven team.
As part of our Client Reporting team, the role will suit a part or newly-qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) who will manages a portfolio of customers and is responsible for ownership P&L reporting, balance sheet review and financial control for their clients, whilst also working with the Finance team to achieve best in practice processes across the team. The Client Reporting Accountant acts as a trusted advisor to the business, partnering with Operations to ensure P&L information is accurate, reliable and timely.
Key Responsibilities:
- Production and ownership of monthly client reports for a portfolio of clients; ensuring the integrity of the P&L's project costs & revenue, and scrutinise against client budget.
- Business Partner with Ops and site staff to ensure accuracy of monthly P&Ls and manage monthly reporting cycle.
- Support the monthly billing cycle; highlighting to Accounts Receivable team any changes to contractual billing.
- Ensure all monthly committed costs captured and reflected in updated monthly forecasts.
- Variance analysis and commentary of expenditure vs budget to Ops and site staff
- Assist with preparation of client budgets in conjunction with Ops management
- Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations for respective clients; ensuring all associated accruals, prepayments, deferred & accrued revenue etc. are fully substantiated and supported
- Identify and implement improvements in the client reporting financial controls environment around client reporting, and support migration of client reporting onto Microsoft Dynamics as part of impending system migration.
- Work collaboratively with the wider Finance team and support and assist the Senior Finance Business Partner with ad-hoc tasks as required
- Promote company values and standards, and exhibit appropriate behaviour in accordance with company ethos.
About You:
- Applicants must have the right to work in the UK
- Part Qualified towards ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualified (or equivalent)
- Experience in similar roles
- Newly qualified ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualified (or equivalent)
- Experience in similar roles ideally in the service industry
- Advanced Excel skills
- Previous experience of preparing and analysing individual P&Ls
- Experience with MS Dynamics
- Proven experience building relationships with stakeholders from various levels of the Business within and outside Finance
- Proven experience prioritising under competing deadlines
- Self starter
- Experience of Microsoft Dynamics accounting software
- Experience of facilities management, &/or business services companies
- Experience within a large PE backed business going through significant change
- Experience of presenting Financial information to non-Finance staff
- High level of computer literacy with advanced knowledge of Office (Word, Excel, & Power Point) & other systems
- Ability to work effectively in a team and independently when required
- Deadline / outcome driven
- Effective communicator - orally & in writing
- Confident self-starter, with proven ability to prioritise multiple tasks to meet competing deadlines
- Attention to detail, but also ability to understand context of role within the 'bigger picture' of financial reporting within the company and across the group.
How to Apply: