Assistant Financial Controller

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Financial Controller with financial planning, reporting and analysis.
• Maintain cost, revenue and cash flow forecasts across the business.
• Work with operational teams to understand resource requirements and associated cost impacts.
• Monitor actual costs and revenue allocations and investigate variances.
• Prepare cost centre reports and provide meaningful financial analysis to support management decision-making.
• Support month-end activities, including accruals, allocations, journals and sales reserves.
• Review and advise on financial coding and procurement commitments.
• Liaise with Procurement to ensure open commitments are correctly evaluated and costs are recognised in a timely manner.
• Support payroll accounting, billing and invoicing processes.
• Assist with treasury and cash management activities.
• Identify and report financial risks and opportunities.
• Support regular operating planning and forecasting processes.
• Provide financial information and ad-hoc reporting for MOD and UK Government requirements.
• Present financial analysis and reporting to local management and programme customers.
• Work closely with finance and operational teams to support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Challenge existing processes and identify opportunities to improve financial controls and reporting.

About You

• The successful candidate will have a good working knowledge of finance and be comfortable working with financial data, costs and forecasts.
• You should have experience with:
• Debits and credits and fundamental accounting principles.
• Cash flow forecasting.
• Profit & Loss (P&L) reporting and analysis.
• Cost centre reporting and cost control.
• Financial forecasting and variance analysis.
• Procurement costs, coding and commitments.
• Journals, accruals and financial allocations.
• Producing financial reports and analysis for management.