Regional Accountant Job Description
The Regional Accountant will provide professional accountant services, financial analysis, planning, forecasting, budgetary control, management accounting, and financial reporting to support the Society's strategic objectives.
The role aims to ensure high standards of professional financial services, compliance, business intelligence, reporting, and stakeholder support through best practices in financial processes, procedures, and controls.
A key aspect of this role is to develop and progress an effective and efficient financial accounting function, increase our capability for real-time information, cost centre codes alignment on the Agresso system.
Key Responsibilities:
* Manage the keeping of proper books of accounts and deliver financial information and reports.
* Accounting Workflow and Processes: Accounts Payable & Receivable, income transactions, expenditure, assets, and liabilities.
* Annual Reports and Financial Statements, submissions, reporting to National Consolidation.
* Employment Cycle / Staff Pay for the Region.
* Compliance and Control Environment.
* Workflow, Process, and Systems:
o Achieving efficiencies and effectiveness.
o People Management and Stakeholder Relationship building.
o Cash Flow Management, Financial Planning, and Analysis of the Region.
Requirements:
* Fully qualified with a professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) is essential.
* Years of post-qualification experience is essential.
* Experience of annual audit, audit pre-work including audit file, working papers, advance audit analysis, annual reporting/audit is essential.
* Experience of financial Statement preparation to filling/publication stage.
* Budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis experience is desirable.
* Experience in analysing trends and KPIs is desirable.
* Experience with presentations is desirable.
* Experience of key performance metrics reporting, variance analysis for inclusion in management reports.
* Experience of system implementation/systems improvement.
* Development and implementation of policies, procedures, and controls.