Are you our new Project Accountant?

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1 Are you our new Project Accountant? Location Reporting to Salary Working hours Contract Holiday Equal Opportunities Central London Senior Management Accountant 35,000-45,000 per annum (dependent upon experience) Full time. The pattern of hours may vary according to operational needs and generally work will be carried out during normal office hours. We re a flexible employer. This is a permanent contract. The period of notice is one month in writing on each side. 25 days per annum, plus statutory holidays We strive to be an equal opportunities employer and commitment to this process will be expected. We are Future Cities Catapult. We accelerate urban ideas to market, to grow the economy and make cities better. We bring together businesses, universities and city leaders so that they can work with each other to solve the problems that cities face, now and in the future. From our Urban Innovation Centre in London, we provide world-class facilities and expertise to support the development of new products and services, as well as opportunities to collaborate with others, test ideas and develop business models. We help innovators turn ingenious ideas into working prototypes that can be tested in real urban settings. Then, once they're proven, we help spread them to cities across the world to improve quality of life, strengthen economies and protect the environment. We re looking to appoint an experienced Management Accountant to deliver strategic finance and commercial capability for the Catapult. This includes developing, consolidating and managing all aspects of Financial & Management accounting, decision making information, audit and compliance and business intelligence.

2 Key Responsibilities: Responsible for the production and first review of Monthly Management Information contents in conjunction with the Management Accountant role Development and implementation of streamlined project reporting with key attention to the financials and the KPIs Continuous improvement of the Finance Systems to support integrated project reporting with a key focus in SAP Provide business partnering to the Head of PMO for all financial matters Lead a resource planning methodology linking the payroll with the FCC resource planning tools (Freckle & Float) Assuring new bids for financial accuracy and correct financial treatment of income and expenditure prior to approval at the appropriate project board Super-User for SAP Support for internal and external audits including EU commissioned projects Process the key month end entries for projects Holiday and sickness cover for the Management Accountant role Ad hoc duties as directed by the SMA Outcomes are what you need to accomplish in your role. Always useful to know these before you start. These are not all the outcomes you will be expected to achieve, but some of the primary ones: Within the first three months: Establish a project report for each of the projects expected to be reflected within the FY16/17 outturn figures Reconcile project reports with SAP s general ledger Understand the monthly management accounting routines with deliverables fully understood By the end of your first year: Ensure all projects are transferred to SAP with accurate profiles for project lifes Provide automated project reporting from SAP to the Head of PMO monthly Complete the external audit responsibilities with prior year audit recommendations cleared Provide all necessary project input to 5 Year forecasts and annual plans Implement the project accounting tools within SAP and move away from pseudo project accounting within the general ledger Implement the processes to underpin the Financial Regulations relating to projects Reduce the monthly accounting process timetable by 5 working days to +WD12

3 Build strong links with key stakeholders within and outside the Catapult relevant to the function Educate Project Managers with core financials relevant to their roles Essential skills and experience: Qualifications Knowledge and Experience Educated to degree level or equivalent Fully/Newly qualified accountant attained from a recognised accounting body (CIMA, ACCA, ACA). Minimum of 3 years in a management accountant function. Experience of providing support, advice and services to a wide range of customers. A strong background in the use of a computerised financial management system and an advanced excel user A strong background in internal control processes and procedures Experience of working with internal and external auditors Excellent written and oral communication skills Project Accounting experience including R&D projects Excellent communication skills, an ability to deal professionally and efficiently with staff at all levels both within the organisation and externally. Aptitudes and Abilities Ability to deliver high quality, responsive and cost effective services, both directly and through external providers Ability to analyse and solve problems creatively with a customer focused approach. Ability to build effective working relationships. Ability to work flexibly taking into account changing and evolving circumstances. Excellent team player and pro-active mindset

4 Personal Attributes Desirable: Ability to self-prioritise, and to effectively work unsupervised for periods of time Ability to work under pressure associated with strict meeting deadlines Well planned and organised, both personally and as a team member Have a problem solving attitude Positive to new ways of working and new challenges Positive about the benefits of change Self-confident communicator Committed to personal development Must share and exemplify the Catapult s values Have a customer-orientated approach to service delivery. Project Management (Prince 2, AGILE) In depth knowledge of SAP by Design Business Intelligence Tools (e.g. Cognos) Experience within a publicly funded organisation Experience in Project accounting We are a rapidly growing organisation with a mission to make urban innovation happen. We are all deeply committed to our mission, and you will need to share that commitment. And you will have to be happy working in a fast-moving, unstructured and cross-disciplinary environment. Things change as we learn, and you ll need a degree of adaptability. Our culture is open, collaborative and relatively non-hierarchical. We ve tried to capture our way of working in three principles: (i) (ii) (iii) Break new ground we re transformative, imaginative and intelligent Play nicely we re collaborative, approachable and fair Make it a reality we re down to earth, tangible and we get stuck in. You ll thrive in an environment that sits between public and private, between cities and tech, between art and science, between research and practice. If you are excited by the possibility of working in one of the world s leading urban innovation centres, a place stuffed with a diverse group of talents and perspectives, we would encourage you to send your application.

5 Send your CV and portfolio with covering letter via our application portal and in your cover letter, tell us why you re right for the job.

6 Besides being top class professionals, we also expect our people to share a common culture and develop Catapult-shaped competences. Our strategic competencies enable Future Cities Catapult to break new ground and conceptualise innovations to urban problems. They define the why behind our work and draw together our three key strategic imperatives: commerciality; discovery and innovation, and conceptual ability. Commerciality: you can use a commercial mindset to soundly identify, judge, and respond to or drive opportunities that meet our mission to the grow UK businesses and make cities better. Conceptual ability: you have the capacity to identify patterns and connections between information, situations, trends or relationships that can help us to reach our goals, to the level of simplifying complex issues and creating new concepts. Discovery and innovation: you contribute to our mission through the discovery and delivery of innovative solutions and can use iterative processes in developing them. People, and specifically the ideas and innovations our people produce, are core to our ability to deliver solutions and bring our strategy to life. Our people competencies define the who behind our work, specifically that our people display behaviours that are resilient, collaborative, influential and demonstrate high levels of leadership. Leadership and influence: you can play a leadership role and engage people, helping, inspiring and influencing others. Collaboration: you can work co-operatively with multiple stakeholders and agendas in our pursuit of our mission, proactively build a spirit of teamwork inside and outside the organisation. Courage and resilience: you can face challenges and conflict with confidence and integrity, working constructively to constantly keep the focus on delivering innovations that grow companies and make cities better, also while under pressure. Our delivery competencies enable our people to make our innovations a reality. They define the what we achieve through the work that we do by translating the conceptual into the tangible and delivering real solutions to urban problems by driving for results, having a willingness to coach and share, and through quality project delivery.

7 Project implementation: you can successfully resource, manage and deliver projects, maintaining focus and pace. Drive for quality and results: you have a relentless drive to deliver results, achieve high standards and do things better, and innovate to improve our performance and focus. Coaching and learning: You are willing to grasp opportunities for learning and to continuously develop in line with our purpose to advance innovation to grow UK companies and make cities better, and share learning and expertise across and beyond the organisation.