management Accountant (7 months fixed-term)Financial Times

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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
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
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
What's in it for you? Our Benefits
Our benefits vary depending on location, but we are committed to providing best in class perks across all our offices as well as an inclusive environment to develop your career. Examples of our benefits include; generous annual leave allowances, flexible working (including working from home), medical cover, enhanced maternity & paternity packages, subsidised gym memberships and Giving Back opportunities. Full details of our benefits can be found here.
Further Information
The FT is committed to providing an inclusive working environment for all. We are an equal opportunities employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We have implemented a hybrid working model and we also promote flexible working and will consider specific requests around flexibility for all roles where it can be accommodated. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any questions, ******@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help.
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