Client Reporting Accountant

About The Company

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. We deliver innovative, award‑winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.

Our mission is to make people and places the best they can be for our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve.

Our commitment to doing business the right way is rooted in our TRUE values –
Trust, Respect, Unity, and Empowerment
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Role Overview

We are recruiting a Client Reporting Accountant to join our passionate and driven team. The role is best suited to a part or newly‑qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) who manages a portfolio of customers and owns P&L reporting, balance sheet review and financial control for their clients. The Accountant will partner with Operations to ensure P&L information is accurate, reliable and timely.

• Production and ownership of monthly client reports for a portfolio of clients; ensuring the integrity of the P&L’s project costs &, and scrutinise against client budget.
• Business partner with Ops and site staff to ensure accuracy of monthly P&Ls and manage monthly reporting cycle.
• Support the monthly billing cycle; highlighting to Accounts Receivable team any changes to contractual billing.
• Ensure all monthly committed costs captured and reflected in updated monthly forecasts.
• Variance analysis and commentary of expenditure vs budget to Ops and site staff.
• Assist with preparation of client budgets in conjunction with Ops management.
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations for respective clients; ensuring all associated accruals, prepayments, deferred & accrued revenue etc. are fully substantiated.
• Identify and implement improvements in the client reporting financial controls environment around client reporting, and support migration of client reporting onto Microsoft Dynamics as part of impending system migration.
• Work collaboratively with the wider Finance team and support and assist the Senior Finance Business Partner with ad‑hoc tasks as required.
• Promote company values and standards, and exhibit appropriate behaviour in accordance with company ethos.

• Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
• Part qualified towards ACA, CIMA or ACCA qualified (or equivalent).
• Experience in similar roles, ideally in the service industry.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Previous experience of preparing and analysing individual P&Ls.
• Experience with MS Dynamics and Microsoft Dynamics accounting software.
• Proven experience building relationships with stakeholders from various levels of the Business within and outside Finance.
• Proven experience prioritising under competing deadlines.
• Self‑starter with strong communication skills, orally & in writing.
• Attention to detail and ability to understand the wider context of financial reporting within the company.

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We are an equal opportunities employer and rely on a diverse workforce with a broad range of knowledge, skills and backgrounds to deliver our goals. We offer an inclusive and welcoming environment and actively encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or age.

City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom