Manager Cost Accounting

Job description

**About your role** Playing a vital role in driving cost efficiency, youll partner with the Cost Head and other GCH - Finance colleagues to shine a light on your Cost area, continuously questioning and finding ways to simplify, optimise and increase transparency. As part of our team, you’ll learn and grow every day. You’ll develop speciliast knowledge of your Cost area and will contribute to the implementation of best practice, gaining the skills and capability to: - Responsibility of end-to-end Cost accounting, analysis and reporting - Responsible for the execution of other accounting functions related to Cost accounting, including but not limited to MoM variance analysis, reconciliations and Headcount analysis and month-end reporting - Create engaging and informative monthly and ad-hoc analysis, analyzing movements with the Cost Head from both a Controlling and Business Finance perspective - Providing business insights and analytical support to enable informed decisionmaking, active involvement in budgeting, and forecasting - Leading and contributing to strategic and transformation initiatives, and taking endtoend ownership of the process, including stakeholder management and continuous improvement within the assigned vertical - Understand and compile stakeholder requests and provide feasible solutions - Collaborate with senior stakeholders (including LEC, Group Control & Business Finance teams) acting as subject matter expert for your area and positively representing the GCH - Get involved in an exciting range of FIL-wide projects or tasks relating to your Cost area - Maintain a high level of risk awareness and develop a sound control environment to mitigate risk **About you** With a solid background in Finance with exposure to accounting, data analytics, reporting and reconciliations, you’re the specialist we need. You: - Understand cost accounting and its downstream impact on Controllership and Business Finance - Are curious, with strong attention to detail and a love for diving into issues in depth - Have sound analytical skills and strong knowledge of accounting principles - Comfortable in working with people and teams across the business to develop, share, accept and implement new ideas - Love working as part of a team and contributing towards team goals, but also enjoy working independently to deliver results - Are comfortable with managing multiple tasks and can prioritize and organize effectively - Can grasp new concepts, assimilate information and deliver high quality solutions at speed