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Finance Business Partner/Management Accountant – Cost & Reporting
Location: Central London/2 days WFH
Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 + study support & disc bonus
Contract: Permanent
Qualification: Part-qualified / Newly Qualified Accountant
Sector: Oil & Gas
The Role
We are looking for a part-qualified or newly qualified Assistant Accountant to join the finance team in a broad cost and management reporting role.
Working closely with budget holders and the wider finance team, you will be responsible for monitoring costs, producing management information, supporting budgeting and forecasting activities, and helping the business understand financial performance against plan.
This would suit an ambitious accountant who has gained hands-on management accounting experience and is looking to develop their commercial finance and business partnering skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and track expenditure across multiple cost centres, ensuring costs are accurately recorded and allocated.
- Prepare regular cost centre reports and analyse actual expenditure against budget and forecast.
- Investigate and explain cost variances, identifying key drivers and highlighting areas requiring management attention.
- Work directly with budget holders to review expenditure, understand variances and improve cost control.
- Assist with the preparation of annual budgets and periodic forecasts.
- Support month-end management accounting activities, including accruals, prepayments and other accounting adjustments.
- Produce clear and accurate management reports for finance and operational stakeholders.
- Support the procure-to-pay cycle, including purchase orders, goods receipts and the accurate recording of supplier costs.
- Review outstanding purchase orders and commitments and ensure these are appropriately reflected within forecasts and reporting.
- Maintain accurate financial information within SAP.
- Support continuous improvements to reporting, forecasting and financial control processes.
- Assist with ad hoc analysis and finance projects as required.
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Candidate Profile
The successful candidate is likely to have:
- Part-qualified or newly qualified status with ACCA, CIMA or ACA, or equivalent.
- Previous experience in an Assistant Management Accountant, Management Accountant, Cost Accountant or similar role.
- Practical experience of cost centre accounting and variance analysis.
- Experience working with budget holders or non-finance stakeholders.
- Exposure to preparing or supporting budgets and forecasts.
- A good understanding of the procurement / purchase-to-pay process, including purchase orders and goods receipts.
- Previous experience using SAP.
- Strong Excel and general financial analysis skills.
- Good communication skills and the ability to explain financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues.
- Strong attention to detail with a proactive and commercially minded approach.
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What We're Looking For
This role would particularly suit someone who enjoys getting behind the numbers rather than simply producing reports. You should be comfortable challenging and discussing expenditure with budget holders, investigating variances and helping operational teams understand how their decisions affect financial performance.
The position offers a strong opportunity for a developing accountant to gain broader exposure to management accounting, cost control, budgeting, forecasting and business partnering.
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