Job Description

We are recruiting an Interim Senior Accountant who will play an active role as part of the Operational Finance Team of a West Midlands local authority and will work in partnership with their Finance Delivery Team Leads to innovate service delivery capability.
You will be required to:

• develop and maintain good working relationships with a range of key stakeholders including the wider finance service, colleagues across Council services, Central Government, statutory partners, service providers, the voluntary sector and customers.
• Provide high quality, consistent financial advice, information and support to WCC service areas in order to deliver strategic and operational financial planning, monitoring and reporting.

Duties will include:

• Reporting of financial position, progress and issues in relation to both capital and revenue financial plans to ensure financial resources and service activities are aligned.
• Responsibility and management of operational sub-team providing finance support and advice across the authority in line with the Finance service offer.
• To ensure principles of consistency and standardisation are embedded within the delivery of finance service
• To ensure appropriate finance support is provided for the impact of current and new relevant legislative requirements
• To ensure financial management is carried out in accordance with the financial framework, organisational policies and procedures.
• To Support financial cycle processes ensuring timetables are adhered to, finance and service requirements are carried out and deadlines achieved.
• To ensure the effective escalation of financial risk.
• The alignment of team resource to priority areas.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities