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Cost Accountant, Financial Services, £40-50,000 London / Hybrid
  
Our client is a global listed trading business with an opportunity for a Cost Accountant to join the London finance team. Reporting to a Senior Finance Manager, the main purpose of this role is to provide meaningful cost reporting for one of their business lines.
  
Your Role

• Preparing the cost reporting and analysis for month end.
• Improving the management information packs.
• Performing variance analysis on performance against budget and forecast.
• Analyse both variable and fixed costs and ensure the balance sheet is reconciled.
• Managing the P&L and improving processes and procedures.
• Reviwing invoices before passing to the AP team for payment.

  
Your Skills and Qualifications

• Ideally a part qualified or Finalist accountant with strong cost management reporting and analysis experience gained in a large corporate environment.
• First class interpersonal skills for communicating with senior management and external stakeholders.
• Excellent systems skills including MS Excel and ideally SAP.

  
This is a great opportunity so if you have relevant experience, fit the above criteria and are looking for an exciting, rewarding, and challenging new role, please apply today.
  
We will be reviewing CVs throughout the process so please apply as soon as you are able to and we are committed to ensuring the entire process is inclusive and accessible for all candidates that fit the minimum requirements for our role. As such, we encourage applications from under-represented groups in the accountancy sector. Please let us know if we can make any reasonable adjustments for you at any stage in the process.
  
At Trace, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and believe that, in any business, it is imperative that all members of staff feel appreciated and respected in their roles.

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