WHAT’S THE JOB?
As a Business Finance Lead, you will be responsible for the monthly close activities within our IFM (Integrated Facilities Management) business portfolio.
This will include, but is not limited to, liaison with the sites, review of the monthly financials, preparation of the monthly management reports and with comparison analysis against forecasts and budgets, liaising with external stakeholders and preparing monthly and quarterly compliance reports.
Your work will include:
- Ensuring financial records and audit binders within business portfolio; review balance sheet reconciliations and ensure that reconciling items are cleared in a timely manner.
- Preparing /consolidating budget, forecasts, business plans for review in a timely and accurate manner.
- Preparing monthly divisional financial statements with comparison analysis against forecasts and budgets.
- Performing analysis on the monthly financials, producing reconciliations for variances and ‘deep dive’ analysis of costs where required.
- Preparing monthly and quarterly reports for external stakeholders
- Calculating annual escalation increases, in line with the contract methodologies
- Owning the weekly cash flow forecasts for their business, this includes monitoring accounts receivable balances on an on-going basis and liaising with operational colleagues to ensure payment
- Supporting finance projects e.g. process improvement, management reporting enhancements.