One of my local government clients are currently recruiting an experienced Accountant on a temporary basis. This is a 3-month minimum contract with the possibility of the role being extended further to work Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Hybrid working role were, however, you will be required to attend the office 2/3 times a week.
Overview:
* To provide high quality, customer focused financial information, training, modelling, analysis, support and advice to stakeholders across the Council, including other finance officers, Council managers and budget holders, to support financial reporting, decision making and budget management.
* To maintain accounting information to assist in the production of accurate and consistent management or financial reporting information.
* To contribute to the mitigation or resolution of financial issues, challenges and risks.
* To contribute to the framework for financial reporting and budget setting, forecasting, control and management within the Council for both revenue and capital budgets.
Responsibilties:
Financial Planning:
* To provide support to managers or budget holders to help identify savings or improvements, which may include the modelling of savings and growth proposals for inclusion in the Medium Term Financial Strategy.
Budget Monitoring/Financial Reporting:
* To ensure that budget holders are equipped with the appropriate skills enabling them to demonstrate financial ownership for all aspects of their service.
* To promote budget holder housekeeping of budgets recorded on the general ledger, presenting them in the way that best reflects expected activity levels and the need for completing statistical returns.
* Ensure that material issues are identified, and financial risks are reported.
* To produce timely, accurate information for statutory returns, grant claims, taxation returns, relevant FOI requests and other requests for financial information.
* To review the Council’s financial balances, transactions or budget monitoring including reviews of timeliness and quality of forecasts entered by budget holders.
Closure of Accounts:
* To ensure budget holders are aware of the closure timetable and protocols to follow to ensure that the appropriate year-end adjustments (Accurals, etc) are actioned.
* To prepare disclosure notes and working papers associated with the Councils statutory Statement of Accounts.
* To satisfactorily respond to complex internal and external audit queries and recommendations in line with the Council’s current audit protocol
If you are interested in this vacancy, please send your CV to Jahker Miah from Coyle Personnel Ltd