Project Accountant - Maternity Cover
SALARY: £45,000 to £50,000 dependent on experience, + benefits
LOCATION: England wide
TERM: Full time or Part Time (min 4 days per week), Maternity cover, 1+ year
ABOUT CREATIVE UK: Creative UK is the independent network for the UK Creative Industries, we champion, connect, support and invest in creative people and businesses. Our specialist Support programmes offer opportunities to the UK creative sector.
The Role:- Management Reporting
- External Reporting to funders
- Audit
- Budgeting
- Business Partnering, advisory services
- CIMA qualified or part-qualified (or equivalent or QBE)
- Demonstrable experience in project accounting, budgeting, forecasting and business partnering
- An understanding of technical financial management information systems and processes
- Public and private sector funding experience would be beneficial, but not essential
- Flexible/hybrid working
- Market leading salary
- Full benefits package
Apply: CV and cover letter to jobs@wearecreative.uk by 7th October 2024
Please see below for detailed JD and package
We are looking for a Project Accountant to provide maternity cover for minimum 1-year fixed term. You will be strategically focused on providing financial insight and guidance from a commercial viewpoint. Acting as the lead Finance Business Partner for our regional and national funded Programmes you will support the team with project financials, identifying and measuring key success drivers and risks, project-managing the programme budgets and reporting performance against target.
This role is an integral member of a small yet highly motivated and fast-paced Finance team, working alongside wider creative teams and contributing to all areas of the business. You will be provided withtraining for Xledger cloud accounting software, our primary platform for financial reporting.
This is a development opportunity for a financial professional to business partner with creative talent, leading on project reporting, budgets, supporting audits and developing relationships and knowledge across the UK Creative Industries. The ideal candidate must be CIMA part or fully qualified or QBE and available to commence appointment from 25th November 2024.
LOCATION*: England wide, preference for Bristol or Manchester. Hybrid and remote working options.SALARY: £45,000 to £50,000 FTE + benefits dependent upon experience
CONTRACT: Full or Part-time MIN 4 days per week, Maternity cover MIN 1 year fixed term with scope to extend
REPORTS TO: Finance Director
TO APPLY: Email your CV, cover letter (cover letter may be replaced with a 1-2-minute video link*) to jobs@wearecreative.uk by midday 7th October 2024. Please complete our anonymous diversity and inclusion survey. First interviews will take place via Teams video calls between 10th October and 28th October 2024, final interviews w/c 21st October 2024.
- Video link optional. Creative UK is an inclusive recruiter and happy to make adjustments to our selection process by request
Business Partnering
- Build close working relationships with Programmes teams to foster open communication and ensure success of programmes overall, as well as maximising contribution from programme activities
- Oversee that programmes spend is in line with budgets through monthly forecasting meetings/calls with Programme Managers/ Heads of Programmes.
- Update Finance Director on pipeline income opportunities to monitor progress against annual Income targets and feed into quarterly reporting.
- Collaborate with New Business teams to produce proposals/bids for new projects, conduct scenario planning and review contracts from a financial perspective – finding the balance between competitiveness and maximising company contribution.
- Facilitate joining-up of Business Areas by sharing budget and forecast information with other teams e.g. share programmes marketing budgets with Director of Marketing to enable collaboration across the organisation.
- Attend and contribute to company meetings to assist collaboration between teams and ensure a joined-up approach to all company events and activities.
- Prepare, review and analyse information used for management, forecasting, control and monitoring, with ownership of the Programmes budgets.
- Develop and analyse various income and expenditure scenarios and generate accurate forecasts to assist in sound management decision-making.
- Produce accurate and timely information, including variance analysis and commentary, for quarterly internal and Board reporting.
- Support with cash-flow forecasting and management.
- Ensure all external reports are delivered and submitted timely in accordance with funder requirements
- Provide/ review evidence requested from the relevant regulatory bodies and support in the preparation of project audits.
- Support the Finance team during the year-end auditing process, ensuring all required information is accurate and delivered to the auditors on time.
- Support the Finance Director in producing annual and strategic growth budgets for the group, with ownership of Programmes budgets.
- Consult with teams and project managers to plan and develop detailed programme and departmental budgets annually.
- Conduct continuous reviews of working accounting practices and processes to ensure efficient and cost-effective operations within the Finance function.
- To undertake any other reasonable activities as directed by Finance Director.