Accountant – Capital Expenditure

Job Overview.

Experience: 3-5 YearsSector: Industry Accounting

Reporting to the Cost Manager, this key role would suit a newly qualified accountant with industry experience. The role will interact closely with the IT Department and the Project Management Office and provide end to end analysis from project initiation to benefits tracking and depreciation forecasting. Excellent communication and relationship building skills required.

Key Responsibilities

• Primary Finance support on capital expenditure.
• Support month-end cost reporting using commercial insights gathered from the business.
• Responsible for the depreciation process – posting journals to the General Ledger, budgeting and forecasting support, and develop management reporting.
• Present outputs as required to senior stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
• Develop a full understanding of capital expenditure’s impact on financial reporting including cloud computing implications.
• Support business case development including benefit realisation and tracking.
• Support the business preparing budget drawdowns at the Business Change Board and maintain tracker of accounting and budget decisions.
• Work closely with IT to produce robust forecasts for strategic projects and future operational cost base impacts.
• Support the budgeting, planning and business strategy processes, challenging the numbers where appropriate and highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Consider Sustainability criteria across projects and ensure relevant information is gathered for CSRD reporting.

Skills Required

• Accounting qualifications with cost accounting experience and exposure to Capital Expenditure.
• Strong communication skills, ability to add value and support key business decisions, building relationships with internal cross functional stakeholders.
• Influencing others to achieve a positive impact. This includes communicating clearly, building support for ideas and having an impact on other people.
• A keen analytical mind who views the Finance Function as a key strategic enabler of better business and commercial decision-making.
• A strong team player with the proven ability to work with others to accomplish common objectives.
• An ambitious attitude, an individual who is self-aware, willing, and able to grow and develop further assuming increased responsibility.
• Meeting and exceeding performance goals and expectations to deliver results.
• Financial modelling skills would be an advantage.

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