Financial Accountant required to work with a Government department. This is an initial 6 month contract, paying £678 a day, inside IR35, hybrid working.
Job Description:
* Generation and submission of quarterly VAT returns.
* Liaising with the external audit team as the administrative point of contact for our Interim and Final audits, maintaining comprehensive workings and reconciliations to support them.
* Supporting the preparation of our various Returns.
* Supporting our delivery and operational finance teams with accounting, policy and VAT issues liaising, where required, with our colleagues in Head Office.
* Maintaining our Assurance Framework and guiding the finance community on assurance activities across the function.
* Preparation of statutory financial statements in accordance with the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
* Process Stewardship of our financial processes and coordinating activity to refresh our process content on the Themis Management System.
* Providing quality oversight and assurance of financial information, actively encouraging innovation and improvement both within the finance community and with wider influence.
* Identifying and supporting improvements to business processes, considering organisation effectiveness and not just short-term savings.
* Working with our Systems and Reporting team to continuously improve processes and outcomes for our community and our stakeholders.
* Ensuring the finance team maintains its objectivity, impartiality, independence and integrity in adhering to professional code of ethics, applicable accounting and reporting standards and other corporate policy/guidelines.
Essential:
* Understanding financial statutory accounts.
* Financial accounting expertise.
* Keeping up to date with financial reporting requirements (IFRS, FReM).
* High delivery focus and integrity.
* Competent with Microsoft Excel.
* Good working relationships internally (cross-functional and other finance staff), and externally.
* Effective communication in various mediums, including presentation of complex data, at all levels of the organisation.
* Personal resilience in dealing with non-negotiable timescales and conflicting priorities
* Public sector experience
* Professionally qualified through CIMA, ICAEW, ACCA or other CCAB body
A career path that can demonstrate effective delivery of:
* Financial accounting and reporting.
* Audit liaison.
* Leading, owning and delivering successful accounting outcomes.
* Influencing without line management authority and building strong relationships with senior colleagues.
* Undertaking financial analysis quickly and accurately.
* Working to tight deadlines.
* Understanding current reporting/presentation tools and techniques.
Desirable:
* Advanced knowledge of financial technologies and Microsoft Excel.
* Awareness of government accounting and Managing Public Money.
* Experience within government.
Candidates will need an active SC clearance for this role.
Please apply should you fit the above criteria