To lead on group management accounting reporting to the Senior Finance Manager, ensuring management account functions such as monthly reports and forecasts are completed
Apply best accounting practices to ensure an accurate representation of financial performance
Use persuasion, motivation and negotiation skills to encourage and influence Management and Budget Holders to ensure cost-effective decision making by management
Lead the budget setting process ensuring that budgets are reflective of the resources required to deliver services
Provide financial support for complex business cases as appropriate, describing the financial implications of the business case and investment appraisal techniques
Use accounting packages to a high standard, thereby ensuring maximum information is available
Analyse variances by comparing actual income and expenditure versus budget and/or trend analysis techniques, to take account of the complex interaction between activity and income and expenditure and highlight areas of concern
Collate cost pressures and other service changes and ensure cost allocations used by the Team Costing reflect, as far as possible, true costs
Working with the Finance Business Partners to understand the impact of activity changes, calculate appropriate marginal costs for planning and monitor purposes
Work with the relevant Managers to generate accurate financial forecasts for activity levels, contract income, expenditure and non-contract income.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Extensive accountancy experience within the public sector Advanced MS Office skills