Commercial Accountant

Office
Not aligned to specific channel

Is there more to you than just being great with numbers and Excel?

CPM are seeking a confident, articulate Commercial Accountant to join their busy, fun-loving head office team. The role involves working across all financial activities for a number of clients.

Ideal Location: Thame, United Kingdom, OX9

Salary: Up to £32K DOE

Benefits include:

-Life Assurance (2X salary)

- 26 days holiday + Bank Holidays, with yearly increments to a maximum of 31 days

-Employer pension contribution

-Income protection

-Private Medical Insurance

-Flexible benefits to suit you. E.g. Buy/Sell holiday

In this role you will work as part of our valued finance team based at our head office in Thame. You would be responsible for all aspects of client accounting across a selection of our prestigious clients.

Key Features:

  • Coordinate and review client reconciliations (client budget vs cost incurred)
  • Produce monthly management accounts ensuring revenue recognition is in line with ASC 606, investigating variances & reporting monthly results to stakeholders.
  • Own the balance sheet and project ledger reconciliations for your account portfolio
  • Deliver the internal plan, quarterly and ad-hoc forecasts in partnership with Client Service Directors.
  • Invoice for client activity. There will be monthly reviews with business partners of outstanding debt & unbilled production. You will drive actions to ensure optimum levels of working capital are achieved.
  • Monthly meetings to drive the Finance agenda & optimise financial metrics
  • General business partnering, ad-hoc analysis & supporting business projects/initiatives

In this role you will also:

  • Ensure all costs are budgeted and charged appropriately
  • Review forecast consistency of financial data driven by business assumptions and rate cards.
  • Improve Financial Knowledge of non-financial personnel through delivering the initiatives identified and agreed.
  • Ensure accounting entries & transactions adhere to the CPM control and compliance framework.
  • Undertake analysis and reporting of accounting information for business units, helping the operational manager & client director understand their cost base.
  • Look for areas of improved profitability through cost reduction or better pricing.

We are looking for the ideal candidate who has at least 2 years of experience in working in a financial environment. The ability to manage your own resources, as well as being PC literate and highly developed in Excel skills and intermediate Office skills is also required.

If you have passed part 1 of a relevant professional qualification such as the CIMA or ACCA, or even have exemptions from part 1 through another accounting qualification, then you could be the right person for us! 

Special features of the role include:

  • Working to extremely tight deadlines at month end.
  • Contact with the client service team, internal and external suppliers is a daily job requirement.
  • The requirements of the role are such that activity outside of normal working hours is sometimes required.
  • The jobholder must possess a versatile approach to work with a wide range of technology to meet current and future requirements through coaching and development.

About CPM

We are a well-respected, global outsourced sales business working with the World’s largest brands. CPM have been accredited - Investors in People Gold and place great importance on the training and development of our people. We work in a collaborative environment where great ideas and achievements are shared and celebrated.

We believe diversity brings new thinking, which is at the heart of everything we do. We’re working to set a standard for creating a culture of equity and belonging. 

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This vacancy is closed to applications.