Job Details

We have an outstanding opportunity to join a hugely successful global business in a revenue focused accounting capacity. This represents a rare chance to join their stable finance team, all of which is based here in the UK, on a hybrid basis.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and post month end revenue journals for review
  
• Compare actual revenue to forecast, investigating and explaining variances
  
• Adjust forecasts and prepare structured variance summaries for inclusion in the monthly reporting pack
  
• Maintain accrued and deferred revenue schedules by entity
• Reconcile revenue related Pandamp;L and balance sheet accounts
  
• Maintain a complex Excel based revenue forecast for the group
  
• Review and update forecasts, incorporating commercial, project and billing information
  
• Interpret contract terms and delivery milestones for revenue forecasting purposes
  
• Translate operational/project updates into financial impact
• Create structured, centralised summary data for non-finance stakeholders to review
  
• Provide revenue insight and supporting data for group budgeting process
  
• Prepare journals for revenue-related audit queries, escalating technical matters to the FD as required.
  
• Identify and implement opportunities to streamline, automate or improve revenue models and supporting processes
  

Experience Required:

• Part-qualified accountant with a strong academic background
• Strong foundation in financial accounting or management accounts
• Sound knowledge of "revenue recognition" or "deferred income"
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Excel - index matching, pivot tables and lookups
• Aptitude for investigating incomplete data sets
• Strong communicator with a desire to business partner