About this role
Roles & responsibilities
This role involves interpreting complex financial data to provide actionable insights and recommendations, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop an understanding of the business area supported, proactively learning the services it provides, client issues it seeks to address, sectors it operates in and key clients / client contracts.
- Lead on shared delivery centre (KDN) cost accounting, acting as the central liaison between the business and the delivery centre.
- Resolve auto‑settled inter‑office (KPMG network) invoices, ensuring costs are accurately coded to the correct engagement.
- Manage disbursement costs in ‘KPMG Law’, including monthly corporate card statement reconciliations and cost recharging to engagements and other internal cost centres
- Review recharges from Corporate Services, identifying and flagging anomalies for investigation and resolution.
- Review the cost base, including classification across ledger accounts and cost centres, validating accuracy and correcting issues as required.
- Prepare monthly accruals and prepayments, including pre‑ and post‑close reconciliations, for review and sign‑off.
- Perform monthly cost variance analysis (YoY, MoM, and vs budget), investigating and preparing commentary on significant variances.
- Monitor and challenge sundry fees, including settlement thereof.