Howden
Management Reporting Accountant (12 month FTC)

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What is the role?
We're looking for a Management Reporting Accountant to join our Group Finance team, as our growing business seeks to undertake ambitious new projects. This person will be responsible for coordinating our group-wide financial close process, including the delivery of timely and insightful management reporting to senior stakeholders. The role will also have involvement with the Group's budgeting and forecasting processes, and other strategic finance initiatives.
Please note that this role is for a 12 Month FTC. Following a hybrid-work pattern, the expectation is for you to be onsite 2-3 days per week on average.
What will you be doing?
- Coordinate the close process and lead communication with Divisional teams to ensure timely submissions in the Group's consolidation system
- Assist with the production of monthly management accounts, including variance analysis and commentary for senior leadership.
- Support the budgeting and forecasting cycles, working closely with business units to ensure accuracy and alignment with strategic goals.
- Maintain and enhance reporting templates and dashboards to improve the efficiency of the Group's close process, including providing feedback to Divisions through a scorecard process.
- Collaborate with FP&A and other finance teams to ensure consistency and integrity of reporting across the Group.
- Provide financial insights and analysis to support decision-making across
- Assist with onboarding new acquisitions into management reporting processes and systems.
- Maintain process documentation for monthly and quarterly reporting cycles.
- Respond to ad hoc reporting requests from internal stakeholders including Treasury, Tax, M&A, and Divisional Finance.
- Support key finance projects, including system upgrades, process improvements, and data quality initiatives.
- Deliver high-quality outputs presented in a concise and easy-to-follow manner.
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- Newly Qualified accountant: ACA / CA(SA) / CIMA or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of management accounting principles and financial analysis.
- Experience working in a complex, multi-entity environment either through audit experience or industry; exposure to multi-currency reporting is a plus.
- Prior experience using OneStream, HFM, Power BI is desirable or have the ability to learn new systems quickly.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail is key, with a drive for producing high-quality work.
- Advanced MS Excel skills is a must (e.g., INDEX MATCH, VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables), with experience in data manipulation and reporting.
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