Interim Senior Accountant - ASCPH Team
Job Ref: Richmond & Wandsworth 7541-1
Pay Rate: £341.37 per day PAYE
Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: TWICKENHAM, LONDON
You will support the management team and budget holders in one or more division(s) in the Adult Social Care and Public Health Directorate on all financial management matters including budgets, budget monitoring, efficiency programmes, value for money, closing of accounts, technical issues and management reporting as well as supporting the Finance Manager and AD of Finance. You will also support project work of an ad hoc nature.
Working in a team of 4 in the financial management team.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide comprehensive professional financial management services directly and through the management of the staff, and for maintaining, monitoring, and controlling the directorate budget.
2. Prepare revenue and capital monthly/quarterly/annual management accounts for a specific number of service areas as allocated.
3. Review Member reports to ensure that finance information is accurate and provide sufficient detail for members to be able to make key decisions.
4. Provide financial information for statutory and non-statutory returns.
5. Support budget holders to help them understand their budgets and provide accurate budget monitoring information, constructively challenge their assumptions, providing training as required.
6. Support budget holders in the review of fees and charges, analysis of tenders, investment appraisals, project work and other financial matters.
7. Undertake detailed analysis of income and expenditure profiles and trends to provide projections on a sound basis.
8. Provide information for internal/ external audit as required.
9. Inform budget and senior managers where appropriate where specific budgets are being over/ underspent. Produce ad hoc reports when requested and provides support and guidance to operational managers to enable them to optimise use of the Councils’ budgetary control systems.
10. Answer ad hoc financial queries, including complex enquiries, when requested by budget and senior managers.
Qualifications:
* Part qualified, AAT, CCAB or CIMA.
Knowledge:
* Knowledge of local authority accounting including the Statement of Recommended Practice and other relevant codes of practice.
* Knowledge of legislation affecting local government finance and service delivery.
Experience:
* Experience of successfully leading or managing the finance aspects of projects including monitoring efficiency programmes.
* Experience of undertaking complex financial calculations including options appraisals, sensitivity analysis and variance analysis.
* Experience of simplifying complex financial issues and presenting them in a manner that the recipient understands.
* Experience of designing complex spreadsheets and using them as models for decision making.
Skills & Abilities:
* Advanced Excel spreadsheet skills required.
* Proven oral, written and presentation skills to provide clear and concise messages in a variety of internal and external contexts.
* Demonstrate people skills including the ability to work collaboratively, build strong working relationships with key internal and external partners and stakeholders.
* Ability to apply problem solving skills on complex issues and make recommendations to avoid problems arising in the future.
* Ability to plan and manage conflicting priorities, handle multiple demands for service and meet deadlines under pressure.
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