Finance Analyst, 12 month contract, London

A direct vacancy from www.russiansinthecity.eu

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES includes:

Month end closing:

– Performing month end journal entries in JDE and SAP: accruals and prepayments, programming assets accounting, reclasses etc.
– BS reconciliations
– Filling in month end templates and submissions
– Investigating differences between budget and actuals
– Programming support for the 4 channels
– Requesting programming projects and helping business with any SAP related programming queries

– Updating programming assets data in the programming system and maintaining it up to date
– Maintaining excel programming spread sheets and updating calculations
– Working with the scheduling team to insure programming start dates are updated according to the programming schedule
– Reconciling programming liabilities, working with shared service centre (GBS) and the vendors to insure programming invoices are paid on time
– Assisting Senior Finance analyst in assessing new acquisitions, preparing programming approval forms and performing programming analysis
– Providing business with reports on programming spend Budgeting and forecasting
– Updating programming plans details in the automated programming system
– Preparing budgeting and forecasting templates for the business
– Collecting details and preparing load files into the system
– Reviewing programming budgets and forecasts posted from the programming system and insuring integrity of the calculations
– Preparing programming submission templates

Sales support:
– Approving sales invoices and filling in invoice request forms
– Liaising with the agents regarding commission calculation, reports etc.
– Agents commission calculation and reconciliation

Other:
– Providing Purchase Orders system (Sprinter) support: creating new sprinter account requests and amendments, insuring new BUs are added to the accounts on time to avoid delays in payments, reviewing open PO reports and insure POs and follow up on the old items, helping business with all sprinter related issues and queries
– Maintaining T&E details, performing recharges, preparing T&E reports for business
– Performing ad hock tasks and reports for senior finance analyst

ROLE-SPECIFIC SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES:
– Degree in Economics/Finance/Accounting required
– ACCA or equivalent certificate in progress is an advantage
– Fluent English and Russian required
– Pro-active, hands-on approach
– 3+ years of experience in Finance required
– Working experience in Russia will be an advantage
– Strong Microsoft Excel skills required
– Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
– Self-starter able to work independently
– SAP, JDE, Sprinter knowledge will be an advantage
– Media experience will be an advantage, but not necessary

Unfortunately we can not provide visa sponsorship for this position.