Your new companyHays are currently working in partnership with a highly reputable international insurance company, to recruit an experienced Expense Accountant on a 6-month contract. This company is a large corporate outfit that prides themselves on providing a superior suite of solutions for their commercial customer base.Your new roleThis temporary role is to provide cover for a Norwich-based Expense Manager and its primary focus is to support expense management, expense accounting and procurement. The role will be responsible for the production of quality and timely expense related management information and offering expense performance insight to a range of stakeholders including the CFO and CEO. Key responsibilities:
1. Support the AVP of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning, the CFO and CEO in managing the cost base of the organisation and identifying value-creating opportunities
2. Support creation of "bottom up" expense plans and monthly forecasts
3. Provide analysis and insight into expense dynamics for different business units
4. Assist with cost-benefit analyses and investment cases
5. Work closely with the Accounts Payable and Procurement functions to improve and embed new processes and systems
6. Review the appropriateness of expense allocation factors of cost centres and update periodically
7. Production of monthly expense reconciliations and processing of journals as required...