What's involved with this role: Reference no: Brent 5260595 Hybrid working – 3 days a week in the office Please note the pay rate is provisional only and the ad will be amended with the confirmed rate, once received. Key Requirements: CCAB Qualified Accountant with significant post qualification experience Practical experience of preparing the HRA annual statement of accounts and notes from start to finish and dealing with subsequent audit queries. Practical experience of annual housing rent setting and tenants’ service charge reviews. Knowledge of maintaining financial models for rent setting, service charge reviews and the HRA Business Plan. Experience of supporting the preparation of HRA budgets for the council’s annual Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) review. Experience of submitting financial data for the annual core benchmarking exercise to enable comparison with other housing bodies. Experience of preparing and submitting statutory housing returns – LAHS / LADR / RO / RA. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Basic DBS disclosure is listed as a requirement for this role The purpose of the role is to provide specialist and senior financial and accounting support to a substantial area of the council's business, typically a major part of the budget for an overall department or a substantial defined technical area of the corporate accounting and control arrangements. Key Responsibilities: Provide robust and clear financial advice to senior stakeholders, presenting information on all financial matters relating to the HRA to committees and forums as required. Managing the monthly financial monitoring. Assisting in the submission of and understanding of various statutory and benchmarking returns, as well as bidding documentation. Providing finance consideration on all reports for governance purposes. Overseeing budget modelling to determine financial impact of future service demands, changes in legislation and other factors determining resource requirements. Reviewing benchmarking information and supporting the service with identifying action plans for efficiencies and savings. Supporting the delivery of projects with a complex financial implications or strategic projects. Supporting services in identification of funding sources for projects and preparation of bidding documentation. Closing the accounts annually, ensuring statutory deadlines are met. Offering innovative financial solutions to the delivery of projects in a constrained budgetary context, including meeting annual efficiency targets. Reviewing the viability and value for money of various development schemes ensuring they comply with the overall financial framework for the HRA and grant conditions include RTB and GLA funding criteria. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please