Job Overview
Job Purpose:
The Client is looking for a Service Accountant who will provide high quality, user focussed and proactive financial support and challenge to a range of service areas in managing their finances and delivering the efficiency programme, along with accurate and timely information to support budget-setting, budget monitoring and accounts closure. Work with relevant budget holders to produce the three main pillars of the annual budget cycle (budget setting, regular budget monitoring, and accounts closing) accurately, to timetable and with clear audit trails of working, across capital and revenue. Working with relevant budget holders and managers to identify solutions and mitigate against emerging financial risks.
Main Responsibilities:
- Providing proactive, high quality and informed financial advice at all levels of operational decision making, with the necessary challenge and/or justification where necessary.
- Building strong working relationships across the authority, and with external stakeholders where relevant, and particularly with the services being supported, to ensure best results in operational decisions.
- Providing accurate financial information as necessary for statistical returns, Freedom of Information requests and other information requests (internal and external), as required by the services, and with service input where relevant.
- To know and apply the relevant financial controls, checks and balances in
every day working, taking into account the authority’s financial standing
orders and scheme of delegation, and wider legislation, and other relevant
key documentation. - To deputise for the Group Accountant where necessary, including
management of Accountancy Assistants in the team. - Provide project management support and finance expertise to the
business on specific projects as required.
Job Detail
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Offered Salary£23.23 PAYE £29.96 Umbrella Rate
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Career LevelLevel 3
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Experience2 Years
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QualificationCertificate