The Finance Intern will assist with management accounting for the Energy Portfolio, improve business efficiency through enhanced reporting and financial forecasting, and support financial controllers with month-end accounting processes. Key responsibilities include preparing monthly accounts, maintaining trackers, and providing analysis and insights upon demand.
Role Purpose
- Assisting the Commercial Finance teams with the management accounting for the Energy Portfolio (Europe, Asia, Africa)
- Working with the Commercial Finance teams to improve business efficiency and commercial decision making by enhancing management information, reporting and financial forecasting
- Assisting the Financial controller and financial accountant with month end and financial accounting for the Energy portfolio (Europe, Asia, Africa)
- Ensuring that processes are followed to provide and maintain a strong financial management and control environment
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Work with Finance teams to assist with preparation of monthly management accounts and balance sheet packs;
- Keep Event trackers reconciled and up to date with actual spend from Financial force on a regular basis;
- Assisting with the reporting of weekly sales reports when required;
- Work with the Finance teams where required on the budgeting and forecasting process across the Energy portfolio;
- Provide quality analysis and reporting insights where required;
- Provide support for the Financial controller and financial accountant with month end processes
- Ensuring a strong financial control environment is maintained;
- Carry out any reasonable project work / ad hoc task as requested;
- Attend training and development as required;
Relationships
Internal:
- Finance team
Senior management and budget holders:
- Sales teams
- IT. department
- Other staff, as necessary
Key Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies
Technical / Functional
- University student studying accountancy related degree
- Interest in working in a finance role
- Confidence to develop and cultivate relationships that leads to open and collaborative communication
- Hands on approach
- Willing to accept responsibility
- Project management skills
- Able to multi-task and manage changing workloads and priorities
- Able to adapt to changing circumstances re-setting priorities as necessary
- Advanced Excel skills
Personal Attributes / Interpersonal
- Excellent analytical and organisational skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, friendly approachable manner
- Self-motivated, conscientious and driven
- Administration and Organisation
- Time Management
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Ability to work within a target driven market place
- Good team working ethics
- Confident & real ‘can-do’ attitude,
- A flexible, pragmatic and common-sense approach
- Patience and an ability to communicate clear and concise instructions
- Enthusiastic with a strong desire to succeed
- Strong attention to detail
- A willingness to travel
- Language capabilities – desirable but not mandatory
Key Success Criteria
- Ability to work with all departments
- A team player
- Good communicator
- Willingness to succeed
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE IS ONLY APPLICABLE TO PLACEMENT YEAR STUDENTS
Top Skills
Excel
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