Senior Accountant

Reporting to the FC, you will have responsibility for managing a team of 5 staff, ensuring that their payments and receipts are processed in a timely manner. You will have responsibility for analysis and ensuring profitability

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Oversee the processing of payments / receipts, ensuring that all activities are completed accurately and on time by the team
- Payment processing and control
- Recovery management and tracking
- Analysis of cost, including actual v budgets analysis, bridge analysis of costs, and KPI’s
- Bank account control and reconciliation
- Purchase and Sales Ledger control and analysis
- Cash Flow forecasting.
- Forecasting charges and balance sheet balances.
- Ensuring complete, robust, and accurate processes are in place, and that these are followed, and that these meet the required corporate compliance levels
- Oversee the processing of the commission payments, ensuring that all of the activities are completed accurately and on time by the team
- Commission payment processing and control.
- Analysis of cost, including actual v budgets analysis, bridge analysis of costs, and KPI’s
- Commission Purchase Ledger control and analysis
- Commission Cash Flow forecasting
- Forecasting the commission Charges and balance sheet balances
- Ensuring complete, robust, and accurate processes are in place, and that these are followed, and that these meet the required corporate compliance levels
- Work on enhancing the studio platform to improve the commission calculation and tracking, leading to less manual intervention being needed
- Oversee the processing of the Interchange statement, ensuring that all of the activities are completed accurately and on time by the team
- Income Recognition
- Processing Fees posting and analysis. Analysis of all processing fees to understand the processing fee per transaction
- Provide an analysis of processing fees for Power BI import
- Build the Credit Card income analysis
- Link Cost study annual submission
- Analysis of processing cost, including actual v budgets analysis, bridge analysis of costs, and KPI’s
- Ensuring complete, robust, and accurate processes are in place, and that these are followed, and that these meet the required corporate compliance levels
- Issue and manage the timetable on required submissions from the team
- Build analysis of all adjustments actioned, tracking their values over time, for review
- Reporting on profitability, detailing any significant variances / adjustments and why these occurred and other key points to note on the charges that month
- Work with project team to enhance and improve the profitability build.
- Document the existing process and map all potential improvements that could be implemented
- Cover the above costs at annual audit review
- Suggest continual improvements to processes and procedures
- Staff management for direct reports including but not limited to monthly shift report collation and sign off, HR Forms and notification, absence management, quarterly staff 1-2-1’s, appraisals, training programme etc., Staff performance tracking and review,this includes addressing any issues

**Key Skills**:

- Full suite of processes under each section that are in place and followed. All of these processes must ensure that the controls are substantive and compliant with group policies
- Ensure all payments are made accurately and on time
- Ensure all receivables effectively chased
- Issue all financial submissions when due
- Indicative Draft of P&L Charge asap after month end close
- P&L, variance analysis, balance sheet reconciliations and MI presenting
- Publish and issue all required data to the power BI team as completed.
- Ensure that the team deliver complete and accurate output, and that they are complying with the correct procedures.
- Ensure that the team are engaged in what they are doing, and understand the requirements of them, work on target performance as required. Ensure any issues are escalated to you by the team, and in turn ensure that these are escalated upwards as necessaryand that a solution is found.
- Own the output of the team, ensuring that all data is accurate and complete. Ensure that any issues are investigated, and solutions offered, and then actions taken to resolve these, enhancing processes as required.
- Continual review and enhancement on processes, analysis, MI as needed by the business
- Work with business on various projects to enhance processes, system.

**Benefits**:

- A salary of £45k to £47k
- Bonus scheme
- Hybrid working
- 31 days annual leave including BHs