Senior Accountant
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Company Description
At Informa, no two days and no two people are the same, and you'll
find the freedom, opportunity and support of a fantastic community to
make a real impact.
We’re an international business that connects
specialists with knowledge, helping them to learn more, know more and
do more through live and on demand events, digital and data-driven
services and academic research.
We are home to over 10,000
colleagues across 30 countries and are a member of the UK’s FTSE 100
group of leading public companies.
In Global Support, we provide
expert guidance and hands-on support to the Informa Group and
Informa’s many business teams. Across tech, finance, legal, corporate
development, HR, communications, operations and many other areas, we
work collaboratively and flexibly to help our brands serve their
customers and help the company succeed.
Job Description
Reporting to the Finance Manager in the Record to Report (R2R) Project Cost Accounting team that covers project related accounting of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and integration activities. The work is split between work that occurs throughout the month and work that is required for month end reporting. It involves:
- Terms of Service Agreements (TSA) related balances
- Integration cost accounting
- Acquisition and disposal costs
- Group expectational projects
- Creating internal orders to match the requirements of each project
- Communicating internal order details to relevant parties
- Maintaining contractor / staff lists
- Reviewing coding of Encrypting File System (EFS) invoices relates to the projects
- Weekly reporting on project costs spend
- Supporting audit and ad hoc requests
- Accounting for any recharges in line with guidance
- Ensuring any payroll transfer are correctly accounted for via the P&L
- Ensuring all accruals / provisions are correctly booked and maintained
- Completing Blackline reconciliation for project related balances
- Ensuring costs have been posted into the correct entities and internal orders
- Producing variance analysis and commentary
- Completing monthly cost analysis
- Ensuring TSA invoicing and recharges appropriately accounted for
- Ensuring currency risk around project balances is minimised
Qualifications
- Strong academic background, Accounting degree preferable
- A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with experience of leading an R2R team within a large R2R function
- Proficient skills in Excel, Word and Outlook are essential
- Good communication skills with the ability to build good relationships
- Experience in disposal and acquisitions will be preferred
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of all R2R processes including best practice in R2R, people, processes and technology
- Sound working knowledge and understanding of SSO processes and how these fit into the wider environment
- Confident in how to lead and guide a team through challenging periods.
- Be able to manage competing priorities and achieving deadlines, whilst delivering a high standard of work and supporting the team as and when needed.
- Solid at building relationships with stakeholders within and outside of the organisation.
- Evidence of making decisions at the right time based on the information available.
- Strong people manager who actively engages and embraces talent management conversations.
- Good presentation skills with a wide range of stakeholders, internal departments and key contact
Additional Information
Why work at Informa?
Employee experience is very important to us at Informa. On top of joining a supportive, diverse and ambitious team that welcomes all types of candidates. We are also flexible with different working patterns and prioritize promotions internally. Our benefits include:
• Freedom &
flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust
they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time
working remotely.
• Great community: a welcoming culture with
in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World
charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader
impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match
funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to
develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring
platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn
Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support
internal job moves.
• Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27
days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work
from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• A flexible
range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private
medical cover
• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an
Informa shareholder with free matching shares
• Strong wellbeing
support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy
living subsidy, access to health apps and more
• Recognition for
great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
• As an
international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the
world.
We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.
As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under federal, state or local law.
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