Finance Business Partner

Salary: £45,600 – £50,400 per year

Project Accountant | Finance Business Partner | CIMA | ACCA | Revenue Recognition | Billings | WIP | Clients | Medical Communications | Pharmaceuticals | CMAPS | Commercial | Hyvrid Working | Flexible hours and flexible working | Excellent benefits

Global business looking for a ‘Finance Business Partner’ to work in their friendly finance team. ACCA or CIMA Part qualified or Finalist the successful candidate will be a proactive self-starter, used to a fast paced environment.

Strong excel and excellent communication skills are pre-requisites.

Remit:

The Finance Business Partner role supports the account management team to monitor the performance of projects including variances to budget and billing. The role leads month end revenue recognition and forecasting and reporting to support commercial decision making. This requires excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills.

Core duties include:

• Create and maintain project accounting master data in the financial project management system and ensure all necessary information is transferred to Sage
• Maintain appropriate access to project records in the financial project management system, ensuring that conflict of interest provisions is adhered to with regards to client contracts
• Monitor and maintain project-related records, including contracts, SOWs and purchase orders, ensuring that all documentation is up to date and reflects any scope or budget changes relevant to the project.
• Review and approve all project budgets in accordance with company policy to ensure compliance with agreed client pricing structures
• Lead the monthly financial review meetings with the client services teams in accordance with the month end timetable. 
• Review the month end WIP and revenue recognition figures to ensure they accurately reflect the latest project progress assessments.
• Investigate and report on any variances in the data and ensure appropriate corrective actions are taken.
• Approve the revenue recognition and WIP journals for posting in the Sage finance system.
• Reconcile the key control reports between the finance and project financial management systems
• Control and authorize the transfer of expenses within the project financial management system
• Review time sheets entered by agency employees to ensure accurate and timely recording of work related to projects
• Investigate project variances and work with client services teams & agency management to identify opportunities for additional billings 
• Investigate and report on non-recoverable expenditure on projects
• Report on Project profitability

The Requirement:

• Part or fully qualified CIMA, ACCA with experience of project accounting or business partnering
• Excellent IT Skills including Excel
• Very good organisational skills and strong attention to detail
• First class communication skills
• Used to working in a fast-paced environment