FP&A Accounting Manager, West London (Hybrid working)
£60- £70kpa plus benefits including a bonus

Our client, a leading FMCG business have identified the need to bring on board a talented and highly driven FP&A professional to the business. This role sits at the heart of the finance function. Ensuring that all finance sub teams cohesively operate to ensure strong financial governance of financial records, financial & commercial finance reporting, financial planning and business partnering to the CFO and MD.

Key Points:-
* Manage the month-end, half-year, and year-end closing processes for the UK Export Market, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Review and verify manual journals prepared by outsourced finance teams, prepare cost of goods reconciliations, and sign off on monthly P&L submissions, including statutory disclosures for half-year and year-end. Act as the escalation point for P&L queries and conduct balance sheet reviews to minimize aged items and write-offs and ensure balances are well-supported and explained.
* Oversee & manage the year-end audit process for the UK&I region. This will include working across the wider finance function to ensure information is submitted in line with deadlines and that the information is clear & meets the audit requirements.
* To be the central onshore contact for the cost centre management process, to oversee compliance for monthly cost centre reviews. To play the lead role in re-launching cost centre reporting across the region & to train cost centre managers on how to utilise the reports & to seek feedback to keep the process live & relevant.
* To oversee the preparation of balance sheet reconciliations across all accounts through use of the Balance Sheet Repository (BSR). To work to modernise the BSR and to drive improvements in the reconciliation process, ensuring compliance & best practice around balance sheet control.

The successful candidate will be fully qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) and have a proven track record in consolidating financial components within an organisation. Detail-oriented whilst retaining the bigger picture. Proven experience of pulling together different data sources, to form clear insights into planned financial performance, is also key.

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