Costing Section Head

- Run the month end process for costs and make sure all deadlines are met.
- Provide commentary and analysis of costs against Budget and latest forecast.
- Run the monthly forecast process for costs and make sure all deadlines are met.
- Provide commentary and analysis of costs against Budget and previous month's forecast.
- Provide details of Risks and Opportunities for costs to ensure that BPP are able to manage the expectations of its shareholders.
- Ensure that spending is recorded accurately in the books (Invoices are coded to the correct Nominal/Cost Center and Project.
- This will ensure that variances generated are a true reflection of current financial position).
- Provide guidance to the business of the coding structure.
- The management accounting team needs to work as a business partner with the company: need to provide monthly reports to the business so that they are held accountable for their variances against forecast and budget.
- Need to work with the business to make sure that the latest forecast is as accurate as possible to ensure that variances are kept to a minimum.
- Gain an understanding of each area so as to assess the financial risks and opportunities.
- Meet with each Budget holder on a regular basis to support them in meeting their financial targets.
- Provide monthly summary analysis of headcount and related costs to senior management.
- Assist the business with the annual Budget process by engaging with Budget holders to deliver Budgets within targets.
- Develop a process that collects the Budgets from the business along with bottom up drivers that support the budget for each nominal.
- Full balance sheet reviews on a monthly basis, look to continually improve balance sheet reconciliations each month.
- Follow up on queries.
- Ensure that balance sheet accurately reflects current assets and liabilities of the relevant area of the business (i.e. accruals).
- Support the technology strategy of finance by assisting with implementations through testing of new systems.
- Support the technology strategy of the business by assessing the impact of changes in technology on finance.
- Provide support during the annual audit process by working with the auditors to answer queries and provide analysis as required in a timely manner.
- Support the technology strategy of finance by assisting with implementations through testing of new systems.
- Support the technology strategy of the business by assessing the impact of changes in technology on finance.
- Provide support during the annual audit process by working with the auditors to answer queries and provide analysis as required in a timely manner.