Support Services Financial Controller

We're pleased to announce that SThree is looking for a Support Services Financial Controller, to be based in Glasgow, although working remotely for the foreseeable future. In this role, you'll be the lead on all global support accounting and central costs, liaising directly with other local technical experts within the group, maintaining a solid relationship with the Support Business Partner.

Who will you be working for?

You'll be joining SThree, the number one global pure play STEM recruiter. We are a purpose-driven organisation, bringing skilled people together to build the future. Priding ourselves on our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we have a number of programmes in place to ensure that our people are valued and respected every day. With a sharp focus on training and development, we go above and beyond to ensure that you have adequate support to excel in your career. Perhaps this is why 93% of our people would recommend SThree as a place to work.

Key responsibilities would include, but not be limited to:

Month End & Reporting

• Actively manage the monthly accounts close for all Support & Central costs adhering to the agreed monthly close timetable. This includes management accounting journals, monthly assessment of provisions and reconciling payrolls.
• Ensure that the month end accounts are accurate and reflective of current position based on accounting guidelines. This includes ensuring accurate split of capex and opex accounting.
• Ensure accurate accounting by ensuring that finance master data is correct in both accounting hierarchies and people mapped to correct cost centre.
• Produce Insightful monthly management variance reports for both Income statement and Balance sheet, reviewing financial data to draw conclusions and provide insightful commentary. This would also include liaising with the Support Business Partner to coordinate responses
• Working closely with the Support Business Partner, produce the monthly support report slides which will be a consolidated insightful view of all the knowledge obtained for support costs in the given month, the comparative being the budget or forecast with end user being the group senior Executive team.

Operations

• Periodic review of central entity balance sheet accounts with a focus on agreed key accounts. Report monthly with recommendations and actions to the Senior Regional Financial Controller. Take a lead on actively managing the team in order to clear balances with other departments providing accounting and process guidance
• Ownership of the Budget/Re-forecast process for Support Services & Property together with the Support Business Partner, liaising directly with support directors/department heads, Head of Corporate FP&A and Senior Regional Financial Controller to ensure successful completion. Accountability for the system loading of accurate budget and re-forecast data.

Year End & Half Year

Ownership of central deliverable items as part of group audits working with the External Reporting team to ensure all audit requirements are met, including:

• Exec Bonus & Support Bonus Movements
• Onerous Lease calculations & Provision Review
• Holiday Pay calculations and postings
• Submission of completed balance sheet reconciliations with supporting documentation to group and local auditors (PwC)
• Any Exceptional Accounting schedules
• Provide support on any grant applications and manage milestone evidence and reporting.
• Draft, as required, local audit papers with guidance from the External Reporting team.
• Ensure all year end and half year reconciliations including required payroll information are provided in accordance to the agreed timetable.

What skills/experience are we seeking?

• Qualified or Part Qualified/Finalist Accountant or QBE
• Extensive knowledge of financial and management reporting essential
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to communicate financial matters to non-technical experts and senior members of the group.
• Strong analytical skills with previous experience required in creating and writing commentary for management
• Advanced MS office experience required (VLOOKUPS, SUMIF, Pivot Tables) with an excellent standard of formatting
• A good working knowledge of financial systems (with previous experience of SAP, BW & Business Objects preferred)

What can we offer you?

We pride ourselves on being a true meritocracy, where our employees' hard work is valued and well rewarded.

• Competitive salary and performance related bonus scheme
• Competitive holiday allowance with the opportunity to buy extra days
• Attractive employee benefits scheme

We look forward to hearing from you.