£62000 - £65000 Per year
Financial Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Complete mapping and assessment of current processes, identifying the opportunities to improve reporting controls and the efficiency with which financial data is assembled into high integrity accounts.
- Development of documentation for accounting procedures and policies, including a Excel spreadsheet control environment and capital expenditure controls.
- Leading the response to fix identified weaknesses, single points of failure and similar, either through people, process or IT controls.
- Enhancement of the end-to-end process associated with student and conference income, including student-related documentation.
- Identification of fraud risk areas and assurance through appropriate response
- Maintenance and evolution of existing expenditure control processes, e.g., management information and budget reporting, the Delegation of Authority matrix, the on-boarding of new suppliers, assuring controls for recharge calculations and similar.
- Monthly reconciliation statements for the College's bank accounts and other control accounts.
- Assured and timely distributions arising from financing.
- Preparation of year-end schedules and analyses to support the statutory audit and the associated processes, and
- Assured submission of VAT and PAYE returns.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Professional Accounting qualification (Ideally ACA/ACCA).
- Evident experience of developing and implementing financial controls
- Solid experience of using accounting packages
- Demonstrable advanced Excel skills
- Highly organized with excellent attention to detail
- Professionalism, tact and discretion in handling confidential information
- A willingness to question the status quo in an engaging manner with evident interpersonal skill
- Excellent written and spoken English with an appreciation of different audiences
- Ability to work calmly under pressure, to priorities and manage a varied workload
- Ability to coach others in improved ways of working
- A strategic awareness i.e. able to look beyond the immediate
- Intelligence
- Accuracy
- Pragmatism and clarity.
Reference no: 109932