Accountant

Job Description
This role is responsible for business specific deliverables for either a dedicated division or across multiple divisions. You will have responsibility and ownership for reporting on the profitability and associated balance sheets of your divisions.
You will be responsible for offering support &
guidance to colleagues on difficult issues as an expert within the team. You will also be considered as a specialist in the specific business division you are working in and responsible for the more complex, higher accounting skill duties.
You will be responsible for ensuring a high value service is provided to key business partners and group through effective collaboration with your team and business counterparties.
You will be expected to support the annual statutory audit process and ensure all MDM/GPO processes are followed.
You must ensure that all company policies are adhered to and that specific duties are carried out within set time limits whilst providing an excellent level of service to all Informa customers and colleagues.
Key responsibilities
The Accountant is expected to assume the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:
Prepare, reconcile and analyse where appropriate aspects of the monthly Management Accounts for specific product areas;
this may cover multipledivisions.
Reconcile revenue to information and explanations from the business and between the accounting system and SAP system
Perform WIP analysis, product costing, provisions (i.E. stock)
Understand and apply within working practices the key drivers that impact the monthly Management Accounting reports
Assist in the production of financial analysis
Royalty, profit share and commission calculations
Calculate bad debt provisions, accruals and prepayments
Analyse and solve ad hoc problems using your knowledge of the business and the systems
Assist with ad hoc duties as needed, including covering workload in other teams
Calculate bonus/commissions provisions
Process intercompany transactions
Checking sub ledgers from internal departments
Liaise with Finance Operations and Cash Operations for reconciliation queries
Capitalising assets and running depreciation
Perform reconciliations of balance sheet accounts
Publish financial results in SAP FC
Budgeting, forecasting, modelling and analysis of direct cost base and divisional recharges (Global Support team only)
Tax &
Compliance duties as required by your SSC