What's involved with this role: Interim Finance Analyst - Finance Reference no: Brent 5257762 Pay Rate: £400.00 per day PAYE 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 4-5 months City: WEMBLEY, LONDON The role of Finance Analyst will be responsible for financial support to departments and schools including such areas as the annual budget, monthly monitoring, statutory reporting, Tax and VAT, Exchequer, Controls and supporting overall council functions. The role will deputise for the Senior Finance Analyst. The post holder will support officers, providing them with high level professional advice on a broad range of financial issues, including the administration of banking and prepaid card systems. Key Responsibilities: Undertake the preparation of budgets, to assist service areas with budget projections and provide critical challenge on a monthly basis, or as required Ensure a system of adequate internal controls exists in respect of financial matters Ensure that accurate financial returns, to both internal and external bodies including CIPFA, are made on a timely basis Advise on the financial viability of new or existing projects and policy proposals Liaison with both Internal and External Auditors Provide advice to service managers on financial matters, including interpretation and compliance with financial regulations Support month end and year end processes, preparing performance and other reports Keep the Council’s asset register up to date. Support schools and their bursars in their roles and their financial development needs Support the development and maintenance of a full range of buy-back services for schools through effective SLA arrangements in a customer focused way. Qualifications: AAT qualified, part qualified CCAB or CII ongoing study OR equivalent experience Knowledge: Knowledge of Oracle Financials reporting Business Objects and ADI Knowledge of accounting principals, policies and practices Knowledge of financial accounting and control Knowledge of local government funding arrangements Knowledge of statutory and regulatory reporting requirements in banking Knowledge of capital accounting and regulation funding A working knowledge of project management methodology Knowledge of banking rules and regulations Sound understanding of income tax issues Experience: Experience in investigating changes to accounting rules and areas of potential breach, proposing and implementing viable solutions. Experience in producing briefings and reports on specific issues for senior managers. Using information to support arguments and recommendations and able to present complex information verbally as well as in written form. Can produce presentations on specific issues and deliver them to managers and other finance staff Experience in identifying major issues and proposing solutions Experience with working with managers to identify potential corrective action in response to significant variances, and to develop appropriate action plans. Experience of providing advice and support to council service departments whilst at the same time monitoring financial activities and standing on behalf of the Operational Director of Finance. Experience of using banking systems Experience in local government across both the Housing General Fund and HRA Experience in capital year-end Analysing information to identify trends and sound inferences from the information. Investigates issues that arise. Income Tax issues / P11D / CIS / VAT / TMA. Skills & Abilities: Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). Good organisational skills and ability to get staff from across the organisation to provide information promptly Strong data analysis skills Ability to produce written reports collating financial information from across the organisation Ability to apply complex technical rules where required, is aware of changes and can explain the impact of them Ability to identify potential budget issues and bring them to the attention of the relevant budget manager or finance manager. Takes responsibility for larger areas of budget development. Undertakes analysis on behalf of budget managers or finance managers Ability to analyse monitoring information and identify variances and trends, identifying impact those trends will have, producing forecasts and projections Ability to support budget managers and investigate more complicated issues Ability to make recommendations for decisions by senior officers. Able to take decisions on open ended issues with guidance from line manager and be able to clearly explain reasoning behind decisions taken 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