Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Aberdeen, is currently looking to recruit an Accountant for an initial 3 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £23.91/hour PAYE – working 35 hours per week. This role will be based in Aberdeen.
Responsibilities:
- Provide support to develop budgets, monitor budgets & savings and ensure significant items are correctly reported.
- Liaise with budget-holders, project managers and Services throughout the organisation to provide financial support as required.
- Arrange regular budget-holder meetings with service contacts, where all aspects of service budgets will be reviewed and discussed.
- Ensure that correct accounting policies are being applied when budgeting and allocating actual spend
- Prepare and input forecasts in agreement with the budget-holder
- Prioritise work to ensure that agreed services are being delivered
- Prepare reports based on financial information such as quarterly Highlights Reports for Chief Officers, and Committee Reports
- Support the review of Business Cases prepared by organisational Services
- Prepare Committee Reports such as annual policy reports review reports
- Prepare financial information in line with accounting standards to be included in the organisation’s Annual Accounts.
- Prepare Financial Statements.
- Review and approve balance sheet reconciliations
- Provide technical finance process advice and assistance.
- Supervise the documentation of processes and procedures.
- Promote the development of a service culture within the team.
- Actively support the development of staff of all grades.
- Manage the delivery of standard, efficient, controlled and effective processes.
- Provide technical finance process advice and assistance. Supervise the documentation of processes and procedures.
- Prioritise work to ensure that agreed services, are being delivered, support the relationships across the Finance team to ensure best use of resources.
- Lead projects for the wider Finance team
- Deputise for the Senior Accountant in the supervision of the wider Finance team
- Deputise for Finance Partner and attend Senior Management Team meetings as required.
- Promote and ensure compliance with policies such as Health & Safety, recruitment and staff communication.
- Any other finance duties as required
Essential Skills:
- Accountant membership of a CCAB recognised professional body e.g. CIPFA, ACCA, CIMA, ICAS
- Demonstrable accounting experience including having responsibility for financial planning and monitoring, statutory returns and accounts closure processes and providing financial advice to senior managers.
- Experience of working in a business administration/financial role.
- Proven experience of problem solving.
- Proven experience of assessing service requirements and providing pro- active solutions.
- Proven experience of prioritisation, working to deadlines and planning of workloads.
- Proven communication skills, written and oral.
- Sound knowledge of operation of computerised business/IT systems and Microsoft products.
- Proven organisational/administrative skills.
- Ability to manage change.
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Budget Preparation, monitoring and reporting of financial performance
- Year End Accounting and associated statutory returns
- Communicating financial information to non-financial managers
- Customer service
- Work as an effective and flexible member of a finance team in a management capacity in a large public sector organisation
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