Commercial Management Accountant

Exponential-e

Founded in 2002, Exponential-e swiftly established itself as a UK Cloud, Connectivity and Communications pioneer. Throughout our history, a focus upon leveraging leading-edge technology to deliver profitable and innovative services to our clients and prospects has resulted in industry and peer recognition for our ground-breaking approach, a truly world-class ICT services company.

We\’re a company of innovators who think big and achieve bigger! Our people are crucial to the continuing success of our company. From our CEO to our new Graduates, each of our people demonstrates our PRIDE principles which are at the core of everything we do.

Overall purpose of the job:

As a Commercial Management Accountant you will play a pivotal role within our team supporting our financial compliance whilst helping drive commercial growth with insightful reporting and analysis.

Key responsibilities for this job:

Financial Reporting and analysis

• Managing the month end and year end close processes related to revenue, cost of sales, receivables and other key areas of our financials.
• Ensure accurate reporting of revenue and customer COS, across the business units, revenue sectors and revenue types (including: non-recurring transactions, committed contracted revenues and PAYG revenue).
• Provide and deliver insightful commentary to the management team during the month end close meeting.
• Conduct detailed cost analysis and margin review of our top 25 customers. Identifying areas of margin maximisation, redundant costs and assist with cost reduction opportunities.
• Manage, mentor and develop an assistant management accountant to ensure they deliver high quality work, and to support their growth.
• Prepare and review Balance sheet reconciliations including revenue, cost of sales, contract assets, customer PPE, impairment, prepayments, accruals and provisions. Ensuring accuracy of financial reporting and highlighting areas requiring further analysis. Tracking and completion of balance sheet action points.
• Responsible for the regular review of expected credit loss provision in accordance with IFRS9.
• Supporting and providing cover for other members of the reporting team as and when required.
• Adhoc projects and support the Group Financial Controller and Financial Reporting Team as required.

Stakeholder collaboration:

• Prepare and deliver insightful financial presentations, making the large volume of data accessible and actionable for our leadership team.
• To build an understanding of the planning process, to ensure we embed forward looking analysis across all of the Portfolio Business to feed into the Business Plan and the FP&A team.
• Drive and actively engage in process improvement and efficiency initiatives within wider finance and non-finance teams. To manage, develop and maintain strong controls around the completeness and accuracy of billing, revenue and receivables.
• Collaborate with sales, delivery team, contracts manager and accountant, to identify complex contracts which need to be separated from our portfolio of contracts.
• Collaborate with our Group reporting accountant to ensure intercompany revenue and costs are correctly accounted for.

Compliance and Controls:

• You will be the driving force in ensuring current controls are maintained and continuing to improve the controls and processes currently in place.
• Own the reporting for ONS reporting ensuring surveys are completed accurately and on time.
• Liaison with external auditors during our interim and year end audit work as required.

Knowledge and experience required:

• Newly qualified ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent (finalist level may also be considered).
• Experience managing and mentoring direct reports.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of the impact of accounting processes on the wider business.
• Knowledge and experience in IFRS is preferable.
• Experience in IT/ Technology / Telecoms industry is beneficial, but not required.

Skills and behaviour:

• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and being able to respond to evolving priorities.
• Self driven, can pick up assigned projects, own them and be accountable to deliver results.
• Organised and ability to work under pressure.
• Confident in summarising findings, and communicating and presenting to both finance and non-finance professionals.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• High standards of accuracy and attention to detail.

Our People:

Our people are what makes Exponential-e Group the company it is today. This year\’s employee survey highlighted that 81% of employees who took the survey would recommend a friend to work for our organisation.

Learning and development are fundamental parts of daily life at Exponential-e. From their first day at the company, everyone is provided ample opportunities to develop their skills and broaden their horizons, with our own L&D team running a range of bespoke courses, based on the latest innovations and challenges across the digital landscape.

Exponential-e Group is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and treating all employees with respect and dignity. The company respects and values the diversity of its staff, striving to maintain an environment where there is opportunity for everyone to feel valued, their talents to be utilised and for both personal and organisational aspirations to be met. Every employee plays a vital role in helping to create an inclusive working environment by understanding and harnessing difference in a positive way.

Location and Salary:

• London, UK, Albany, New York, United States of America
• £68,000 per annum + fantastic benefits including bonus.
• Your paycheck is just the start; experience rewards that truly add value.

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