Financial Accountant
Full-time, Temporary
Job Description
- Oversee staff to ensure high performance and effective operational delivery, developing and improving staff capability
- Take responsibility as the senior financial advisor for a large portion of the budget
- Take ownership of unit costing exercises to ensure the best value for money and ensure improvement in financial performance
- To be the lead for a large portion of the technical accounting, including, capital finance and collection funds
- Lead the statutory financial reporting, ensuring that annual accounts, government returns and similar statistical submissions are completed on time and efficiently
- To advise on and maintain effective financial control and intervene when necessary, to prevent breaches of financial control
- Take responsibility for the operational/transactional functions, ie. payroll, pensions and HR management information
- Liaising with internal and external senior personnel, providing a high level of professional advice and assistance
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Proven expertise advising on managing all aspects of large and complex budgets, delivering significant improvements
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills
- Experience preparing accounting statements and statutory statistical returns
- Significant experience handling complex financial, accounting and output information to analyses complex business processes
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