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Hays Accountancy and Finance are recruiting and working in partnership with a large public sector organisation for the appointment of a Staff Officer Accountant offering a competitive market leading salary and public benefits. This Staff Officer Accountant role will be in the Department for Communities - Housing Finance Branch, part of the Housing & Sustainability Group.
Your new role
The key duties and responsibilities of this post include but are not restricted to the following:
* Provide in-year budget management and monitoring, including preparation of monthly reports for the HSG senior management team and input to the monthly Departmental Management Board Stewardship Report.
* Prepare the HSG (NIHE) monthly Outturn Forecast Outturn return and HSG (NIHE) Monitoring Round returns.
* Engage and work alongside budgeting & accounts colleagues, NIHE finance, Central Budgeting, and other stakeholders to ensure value for money in the use of DfC resources and capital budgets.
* Business case review as part of the Five Case Model business case approach.
* Review and appraisal of the NIHE Budget Submission.
* Review and provide comments on information included by NIHE in board papers, monthly performance meeting papers etc.
* Review and appraisal of NIHE Pay Remits.
* Manage the NIHE monthly Cash Drawdown.
* Review of NIHE consolatory payments, losses and write-off cases.
* Assist with external and internal audit queries, Assembly Questions, NIHE Accountability updates, and Freedom of Information requests as required.
* Attend meetings and deputise as required.
* Other ad hoc finance returns and duties.
What you'll need to succeed
The candidate must be a professionally qualified accountant and have at least one year's experience gained in the last five years, in a finance related environment, in one or more areas detailed below: Financial planning and budgeting; Financial accounting/auditing; Forensic accounting/insolvency-related work; Management accounting and cost analysis; Investment finance; Treasury management; and/or Development/implementation of financial systems.
What you'll get in return
Flexible working, hybrid working 1-2 days in an office.
What you need to do now
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