What's involved with this role: 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: Provide comprehensive professional financial management services directly and through the management of the staff, and for maintaining, monitoring, and controlling the directorate budget. Prepare revenue and capital monthly/quarterly/annual management accounts for a specific number of service areas as allocated. Review Member reports to ensure that finance information is accurate and provide sufficient detail for members to be able to make key decisions. Provide financial information for statutory and non-statutory returns. Support budget holders to help them understand their budgets and provide accurate budget monitoring information, constructively challenge their assumptions, providing training as required. Support budget holders in the review of fees and charges, analysis of tenders, investment appraisals, project work and other financial matters. Undertake detailed analysis of income and expenditure profiles and trends to provide projections on a sound basis. Provide information for internal/ external audit as required. 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. 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 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. 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 directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. 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. ALD 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