R2R Finance Analyst

Aim of role

As an Individual Contributor to provide financial management covering the following responsibilities:-

• Management of results. This includes posting journals, performing reconciliations, first line value add analysis on results.
• Month end close accounting, managing the financial accounts for the business and product area. Also close the quarter and year end accounts.
• Role requires strong communication skills as it involves regular interaction with the Senior Finance Team across the business.
• Complying to all Key and Non-Key controls
• Maintaining adequate backup and support for month end journals and reconciliations.
• Ad-hoc work during the month for specific issues that are identified by the BT team. For example, further detailed and deeper analysis of results, problem identification and resolution. This is a significant part of the role.
• Identifying opportunities to add value to BT’s operation. This will include driving efficiencies in the work area to speed up and improve the quality of output, identifying and introducing new quality reports that add benefit to BT, working with other teams in the area to share knowledge and best practice.

Skills needed

• Graduate in Commerce preferred
• Preferably 5+ year’s relevant experience in Record to Report profiles (Fixed Assets, Month end close, Intercompany, Controllership function)
• Interpersonal skills to be able to work within a larger team.
• Good command over Excel and other MS Office applications
• Straightforward, trustworthy.
• Proven ability to work independently to resolve issues.
• Ability to work accurately to tight timeframes.
• Able to identify improvement opportunities and introduce these into the immediate work area and also across the wider team.