£450 - £500 Per day
Financial Accountant
Full-time, Contract
Job Description
- To support the delivery of all financial aspects of the Annual Accounts and Reports process to ensure accurate, effective and timely delivery
- Lead all monthly control activates across the finance shared service center are carried out in a timely and accurate manner.
- To support all the technical aspects of the capital and inventory
- Support good business governance and enable delivery of strategic and operational business plans by providing an in-house technical consultancy and advice service for internal customers
- To play a leading role in both the production of the Finance Report which is presented to the Board and the monthly monitoring reports submitted to the Executive Team.
- To understand/interpret BEIS technical finance requirements and deliver on aspects of financial reporting, technical issues and other issues resolution.
- To lead/support deal with queries raised by the external auditors during their audit of the Accounts and explain the reasons why policies have been adopted. To prepare working papers as required, and to explain their relationship to other prime documents
- To lead/support and deal with queries raised by internal auditors, explaining procedures and putting new procedures in place as advised by audit.
- To ensure that revenue expenditure is accurately recorded in the Financial Ledger on a monthly basis.
- To support the Head of Financial control in the development of Policies and procedures and then compliance with these across the organization.
- To be responsible for reconciliation process of balance sheet, ensuring that all codes are reconciled and fully authorized in a timely manner.
- To be responsible for reviewing and authorizing the reconciliations of team members, ensuring that any old transactions are dealt with and cleared as appropriate
- To assist in project management aspects of implementation of new financial systems as and when required, taking a lead in certain areas and ensuring that targets are achieved, and deadlines met.
- To Deputies and lead the team when the required for the Head of Financial Control
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Qualified accountant or Finalist, With a recognized Accountancy Qualification CIPFA/ACCA, etc.)
- Previous experience of leading teams in the private or public sectors
- Must be able to evidence in depth understanding, confidence and ease with all matters relating to all accounts including working in a Financial Accounts team for at least three years.
- Detailed knowledge of Capital and Assets Accounting requirements
- Able to interpret analyses highly complex financial and statistical data, and report and communicate with multiple stakeholders
- Effective leadership, interpersonal, influencing and change management skills
- The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
Reference no: 110257