Management Accountant

Job Purpose / Role Overview

The Management Accountant will provide key management accounting support to all financial processes, reporting and business modelling. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a finance professional to gain experience working in a high-profile digital business that requires strong financial support in order to meet their goals and targets. 

 

Core Competencies

• Initiative - Taking prompt action to accomplish objectives and achieve goals beyond what is required. Suggest new ideas, improvements or solutions to business processes without prompting.

• Accuracy - Can consistently deliver work of a high standard of quality and precision.

• Excellent communications skills with team members in the finance department and with the business.

• Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines in a dynamic and changing environment

• Collaborative - Works effectively and inclusively with a range of people within the business, as a team and individually

 

Main Duties / Key Responsibilities

• Understanding of and responding to business queries arising from financial reporting, client invoicing, sales commission and expense management.

• Support in preparing timely and accurate quarterly forecasts for revenue and costs.

• Timely and accurate month end processing and reporting of revenues & costs (including T&E, marketing, commission and consolidated payroll files) and variance analysis as required by key stakeholders.

• Managing invoicing with Nikkei Asia of employee and associated costs for shared resources.

• Preparation of weekly/monthly Balance Sheet Reconciliations and submission of assurance data, working closely with central finance as well as the auditors during the annual audit.

• Perform ad hoc analysis and reporting as required.

• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders

• Contribution of ideas to help streamline our processes and develop our reporting to the business

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Qualifications / Person Specification

 

Required / Essential

• Qualified / Part-qualified Accountant (ACCA/CIMA/CPA or equivalent)

• Minimum 2 years’ relevant experience in a finance environment

• Intermediate to Advanced skills in MS Excel

• Confident and clear communicator with a variety of audiences and fluent in English (spoken and written)

• Strong analytical skills, comfortable with large financial data sets

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Desirable

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy, Financial Management, or other relevant subject

• Experience with Google Suite, Oracle Accounts, and Essbase

• Technical experience with or the ability to adapt quickly to newly implemented general ledger systems as well as other supporting systems