A fantastic opportunity for a career minded and motivated qualified accountant to join a dynamic finance team spread between India and the UK.
This role requires a confident and outgoing individual, who will be a key finance team member. The person must be willing to build strong relationships and must be comfortable providing both support and challenge to the business leads.
This role will report directly to the respective line Manager and have a functional reporting relationship with the respective UK Finance Director and wider finance team.
Will be responsible for the month-end closure, accounting, controls, analysis reconciliation and producing reports for review by senior management. This role will have significant business partnering requirements, with day-to-day verbal and written communication with both the finance team, and wider business organization to include Sales and Operational Business Unit leads.
The role will support in finalizing BU financial information prior to submission to Senior Leadership team.
Job title:
Assistant Manager - Finance
Job Description:
- Business Partnering with Sales and Operational leads in the Business. This will involve significant daily interaction with colleagues to provide accurate forecasting as well as understanding the key financial implications of the actions of the business.
- Produce accurate forecasts of costs and benefits
- Review reported performance against targets and ensure that the key drivers of variances are explained.
- Review forecast against Business Plan and previous forecast targets and ensure key drivers of variances are explained. Hold monthly meetings with the business and verbally explain the variances.
- Support onshore with management information and finance decision support as part of their growth plans
- Support 100% cost recovery through utilisation, cost control, FTE mix and management of the chargeable rate card
- Produce accurate and timely monthly reporting. Ensure accurate representation of the P&L, post all required ledger entries along with reconciliations of all Working capital, WIP, DI, Accruals and Prepayments, and maintain cash flow reconciliations.
- Deliver monthly scheduled and ad-hoc reporting to tight deadlines.
- Provide pricing and business case support as required
- Assist the onshore finance team in streamlining existing processes and designing new reports and processes where necessary. Be proactive in the providing feedback and the delivery of ideas to develop and improve solutions
- Lead in calls with the onshore stakeholders, liaising with internal / external auditors during annual / half yearly closures
- Maintain confidentiality and observe data protection guidelines
- Lead and train team members on various tasks and oversight of their responsibilities
Location:
Mumbai
,
India
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent
What We Do
Capita is a leading provider of business process services, driven by data, technology and people. We are a purpose-led, responsible organisation¬. Every day our 50,000 colleagues help millions of people, by delivering innovative, digitally enabled solutions to transform and simplify the connections between government and citizens, businesses and customers. We partner with our clients and provide the insight and technologies that give time back, allowing them to focus on what they do best and making people’s lives easier and simpler. We operate across three divisions – Capita Public Service, Capita Experience and Capita Portfolio – in the UK, Europe, India and South Africa. Capita is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (CPI.L). Further information can be found at: http://www.capita.com
