Cost Accountant

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Page Personnel Finance Full time

This is a fantastic permanent Cost Accountant role, which will cover a range of responsibilities including, month end, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and more within a leading company and brilliant finance team. The role will be starting immediately,with hybrid working from their London Head office in the City of London.

**Client Details**

My client are a very well-known and respected, leading Retail Company with offices stores and offices based all over the world. As a top company they are ever growing and therefore are looking to add to their already vibrant finance team, with an experiencedfinance analyst/accountant who is looking for a new challenge.

**Description**

As the Cost Accountant your responsibilities will include:

- Overseeing the cost accounting for stores/travel/cash/highstreet+
- Preparing and reconciling individual balance sheet, prepayments, accruals and P&L
- Communicating regularly with Operations and stakeholders
- Performing analysis and financial modelling to produce informative insights and supporting investment decisions
- Assist and support arguments for correct level of costs for the business
- Leading the forecasting and budgeting process for store costs
- Performing variance analysis
- Presenting forecast packs to management team and stakeholders
- Working with Operations to provide recommendations to mitigate any overspends or future risk of overspend vs forecast identified.
- Support the Finance Manager with ad hoc analysis and new opportunity appraisals
- Support the Store Costs Accounting Team with workload during busy periods

**Profile**
- Studying, part-qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA)
- Previous experience with business partnering, forecasting and delivering month end
- Previous experience in retail/FMCG/manufacturing/pharmaceutical/automotive
- Strong excel skills (Power BI/SQL/Index matching is highly desirable)
- Strong under pressure and in a maintain accuracy in fast paced team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Available to start asap

**Job Offer**
- £40,000 salary (flexible upon experience)
- 24 Days holiday + Birthday off, Bank Holidays and Buy/Sell team
- Hybrid working
- Based in City of London
- Supportive training and clear career progression


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