Cost Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Review monthly actuals and book accruals, prepayments and adjustments.
• Liaise with HR on open recruitment and update Hyperion workforce cube. Support the recruitment process, as required.
• Collect forecast information from Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team and update in Hyperion.
• Update and review control checks to ensure accuracy of information held in Hyperion.
• Report actual expenditure and rolling forecast costs to the FP&A team.
• Respond to queries relating to actuals and workforce rolling forecast using understanding of departmental costs.
• Highlight variance overspends requiring sign off by the Approvals Policy.

• Complete balance sheet reconciliations for cost related balance sheet accounts.
• Provide cost information to International, tax and statutory reporting teams, as required.
• Maintain the authority panels in Aria from information provided by FP&A. Provide reports for annual sign off.
• Review chart of account cost related requests and initiate updates required from agreed changes.

• Build and maintain effective relationships and communication channels with Finance teams and HR.
• Continuously seek to develop and improve processes within the team and promote knowledge sharing across Finance, providing technical expertise as required.
• Maintain procedure notes in line with process improvements

Experience:

• Work well with systems and Excel
• Identify problems and drive them through to resolution
• Improve processes and implement change
• Work as part of a mutually supportive team using strong interpersonal and communication skills

• Qualified accountant
• Strong Excel skills
• Experience of Hyperion and SUN