Manager, Business Partner – MI and Cost Reporting recruitment
This will include partnering with key stakeholders in the relevant functions and the business lines, ensuring all costs are correctly accounted for and allocated to business streams, and are reported effectively to enable the business lines to effectively manage and control them and support their decision making.
The Group uses Hyperion Essbase for management and financial reporting, including for the allocation of costs to business streams.
Responsibilities
- Act as a business partner to support functions across the Group, maintaining dialogue with key stakeholders and ensuring internal customer requirements are understood and met
- Provide reliable and timely financial and management information to both cost centre managers and business lines to ensure effective financial control.
- Create and review annual budgets and forecasts of costs and allocation keys with both cost centre managers and the business streams.
- Preparation of month-end cost centre reports and review against budget with department heads ensuring variances are fully reviewed and a strong cost control culture is embedded in the business.
- Update of allocation key in Hyperion Essbase for costs to be shared across all business streams, including challenge to cost centre managers of keys provided by them, converting and processing the allocation key through Essbase and provision of summaries of resulting cost allocations to business line heads to support their management of business stream PLs.
- As required liaison with external auditors in relation to year-end statutory accounts and assistance with preparation of annual statutory accounts and notes.
Experience:
- Due to the high level of business partnering and interaction, you will have experience of engaging and challenging senior stakeholders, managing expectations and extenstive cost allocations experience
- Qualified accountant (ACA/CIMA/ACCA)
- Experience of cost accounting and cost allocations in a commercial environment
- Experience of using Hyperion Essbase and Excel add-in; or Excel with a multi-dimensional reporting systems
May 8, 2012
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