£ 486 Per day
Financial Accountant
Full-time, Contract
Job Description
- Providing definitive advice, negotiating, and influencing senior leadership to make informed decisions that balance short term priorities (e.g. in year efficiencies) with longer-term sustainability.
- Acting as the first finance contact for issues and queries raised by the business where there is no clear solution or if a rapid resolution can be provided.
- Supporting the business to deliver their outcomes and driving financial performance
- Supporting the development and implementation of credible financial plans.
- Driving financial performance against agreed targets, business plans and objectives working collaboratively with stakeholders within the business and from other functions.
- Providing specialist financial advice, engaging experts on behalf of the business as required.
- Providing constructive challenge, scrutiny, insight, and analysis
- Challenging and supporting the business to enhance decision-making and increase performance.
- Being involved at the start, engaging early in development of business cases, investment appraisals and proposals identifying and highlighting any potential issues.
- Undertaking scrutiny of business cases ensuring that cases provide value for money, consider the wider corporate impact (e.g. legal, commercial), through-life implications and that a robust risk assessment is undertaken.
- Acting as the bridge between the business and the rest of finance
- Engaging with the wider business and drawing on the required support from the finance function.
- Working collaboratively with Finance teams and other functions to ensure that senior leadership have the right information and advice.
- Providing coaching and feedback proactively to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business.
- Management of team members, empowering, motivating and coaching to enable effective delivery.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Central Government
- Finance Team
- Management Accountant
- Fully qualified - Qualified with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent
- Previous business partnering experience
- Excellent stakeholder skills at senior level
- Understand financial forecasting/planning
- Strong Excel skills
- Public sector experience - desirable
Reference no: 109326