Job Description

King\'s College London is seeking an experienced Management Accountant for a new role in the Financial Planning & Performance team.

• Working alongside the Senior Management Accountant (Reporting), this varied and interesting role will include:
• Support and development of the recently acquired financial planning & analysis (FP&A) system for the annual financial planning cycle, and in-year forecasting of the I&E and cashflow.
• Management Accounting report development, including assisting with the implementation of a Power BI financial reporting platform.
• Process improvements of the monthly accounting and forecasting cycle

Previous experience of a FP&A system and Power BI reporting is desirable, but training will be offered as required. The successful candidate will be a part or fully qualified accountant with experience in annual budgeting, in-year forecasting.This post will be offered on an indefinite contractThis is a full-time post.Key responsibilities

• Provide support and training on the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) system
• Assisting with the design and development of a data driven, financial costing models for budgeting & forecasting purposes
• Documenting and producing guidance notes for new models and reports
• Assist in coordinating the annual and monthly financial reporting cycles for the Financial Planning & Performance team.
• Assist in the maintenance and development of the financial Power BI reporting platform.
• Work with stakeholders to identify reporting requirements.
• Assist in ad hoc reporting and process improvement projects.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.Essential criteria * 2 years management accounting experience including budget planning and in-year forecasting

• Accountancy qualification (Full or Part Qualified ACCA, CIMA, AAT etc)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and report writing skills
• Strong IT and data management skills
• Good understanding of mainstream reporting and analytics solutions
• Ability to work well under pressure and to be able to prioritise their work in the face of shifting priorities and tight deadlines
• Good standards of written and verbal communication including strong interpersonal skills

Desirable criteria * Experience working in Higher Education sector

• FP&A systems experience in either a user, support or development capacity
• Software experience: Unit4 ERP (Agresso) or other mainstream accounting software, PeopleXD (HR and payroll), Power BI

CompanyKing\'s College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King\'s has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.King\'s has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King\'s was ranked 6th nationally in the \'power\' ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King\'s was deemed \'world-leading\' or \'internationally excellent\' (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than \xc2\xa3684 million.King\'s has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.King\'s College London and Guy\'s and St Thomas\', King\'s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King\'s Health Partners. King\'s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world\'s leading research-led universities and three of London\'s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: .King\'s \xc2\xa3600 million campaign, World questions|KING\'s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King\'s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children\'s Hospital; established the King\'s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy\'s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer\'s, Parkinson\'s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King\'s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at .Company info Mini-site Telephone +(44)02078365454 Location STRAND
LONDON
WC2R 2LS
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