Description
Location: Birmingham (minimum 4 days in the office, B45 9PZ)
Salary: £35,300 per annum
Are you ready to elevate your finance career and make a real impact? At 14forty, part of Compass Group, we’re looking for a Senior Contract Accountant to join our dynamic team. This is your opportunity to collaborate with key stakeholders, drive business performance, and support commercial success across our operations.
Why Join Us?
We’re Not Just Offering a Job – We’re Offering a Platform For Growth. When You Join Us, You’ll Enjoy:
- Study Support: Progress your qualifications with support for CIMA, ACCA, or ACA at the Strategic Level.
- Exclusive Perks at Work: Access to premium benefits and wellbeing platforms.
- Employee Assistance Programme: Supporting your mental and emotional well-being.
- Holiday Purchase Scheme: Customize your time off to suit your needs.
- Ongoing Training & Development: Unlock your potential with tailored programs.
About the Role
As a Senior Contract Accountant, you’ll play a key role in understanding the drivers of our business and ensuring commercial success. Through effective business partnering, you’ll enhance service levels, manage risks, and deliver actionable insights that improve financial performance.
Your Key Responsibilities
Commercial Support
- Partner with financial and non-financial stakeholders to guide operational decision-making.
- Attend key site and client meetings to build relationships and provide financial insights.
- Deliver proactive financial analysis to support business unit decisions.
- Manage financial risks and opportunities, including those linked to balance sheet maintenance and contract mechanisms.
Performance Excellence
- Prepare essential business reports, including month-end summaries, client updates, budgets, and cash analyses.
- Train operational teams to understand and utilize financial data for performance improvement.
- Review monthly balance sheets; identifying risks and opportunities for senior stakeholders.
- Promote working capital improvements through accurate billing debt management; timely query resolution.
- Support budgeting forecasting; client tenders by consolidating data analyzing variances preparing presentations.
- Ensure successful execution of mobilisation actions in line with project timelines.
People & Relationships
- Work collaboratively as part of a high-performing team.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business.
- Mentor support junior team members deliver training for new team members operators.
What We’re Looking For
Essential Skills:
- Actively studying or qualified in CIMA/ACCA/ACA at the Strategic Level.
- Proven experience in management accounting including adjustments commercial reporting.
- Exceptional analytical skills with keen attention detail ability partner effectively non-finance professionals.
Desirable Skills:
- Adaptability changing environments business needs proficiency Excel Macros VBA familiarity SAP Cognos reporting tools.
Performance Standards:
- Excellent communication skills both written verbal engage finance non-finance professionals proactive energetic solution-focused approach strong interpersonal skills ability influence stakeholders self-motivated excellent organizational time-management abilities.
Ready to Make a Difference?
This is more than just a role – it’s an opportunity to influence drive financial success within fast-paced innovative environment.Apply now join 14forty as Senior Contract Accountant Birmingham take next step career journey!
For further information apply please visit our website via “Apply” button below.