Finance Assistant: Cost Forecasting & Analytics

ARM LIMITED; Carterton; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

ARM LIMITED is hiring a Finance Assistant in the United Kingdom. You will support the Financial Controller with operational cost analysis, payroll and billing processes, treasury activities, accruals, and cost allocations.

You will forecast cost, revenue, and cash for the entity and liaise with procurement to ensure proper cost recognition. The role involves working with operational teams to plan resources, identify risks, and provide performance reporting.

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of cost, revenue, and cash flow concepts.
• Experience supporting financial controllers and payroll/billing processes.
• Familiarity with cash flow forecasting and P&L statements.

Responsibilities

• Support the Financial controller in transacting, understanding, and analysing operational cost, along with completing support tasks for the subsidiary; including support to payroll accounting, billing processes, treasury processes, accruals, and allocation of costs
• Maintain cost, revenue, and cash forecast for the entire business entity/business function
• Work with operational teams to forecast resource plans and cost impact
• Help record and evaluate risks or opportunities
• Assist in regular OP and FC process
• Act as a liaison for managers in understanding and controlling operational costs
• Input and advise on external costs and internal resources
• Liaison with procurement team to ensure correct evaluation of open commitment and timely recognition of cost
• Provide analysis and support to financial performance reporting
• Track actual costs and revenue allocation - understand, review, and be able to instruct journals and posting to the back office team to ensure accurate booking of cost, allocations, and revenues
• Produce meaningful analytics to support local operational management
• Assist with single resource reporting requirements
• Ensure operational spend is in line with contractual and single sourcing roles
• Ad-hoc reporting for MOD and other UK Government agencies
• Work closely with TFEU teams to coordinate end-of-month closing activities such as periodic postings, accruals, sales reserves
• To provide support the invoicing process to internal and external customers
• To identify and launch new financial initiatives pursuing continuous improvements, and challenge existing processes and procedures
• Be able to explain variances
• Finance knowledge, debits/credits, cash, and Profit and Loss
• Support Financial controllers
• Cash flow forecast experience
• Providing cost centre reports
• Look up coding for procurement
• AAT, CIMA would be useful

Skills

Cash flow forecasting

Financial analysis

Cost accounting

Budgeting

Education

AAT

CIMA (useful)

Job description

ARM LIMITED is hiring a Finance Assistant in the United Kingdom. You will support the Financial Controller with operational cost analysis, payroll and billing processes, treasury activities, accruals, and cost allocations.

You will forecast cost, revenue, and cash for the entity and liaise with procurement to ensure proper cost recognition. The role involves working with operational teams to plan resources, identify risks, and provide performance reporting.