Chief Accountant - Wiltshire Council
Salary: £400 Per Day
Hours: 37 Hours
Working Schedule: Monday to Friday
Contract Length: 3 Months +
Location: Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA148JN
Job Details
A team manager responsible for a small team of specialist and professional staff in a discrete service or a large team of operational staff within the same service area.
There may be more than one postholder at this level within the same functional or service area but each within a defined specialism.
Will have responsibility for management of a direct budget for staff resources.
Will report to a L3 head of service or a director.
This role is a technical lead for the Councils accounts. It will report to the Director of Finance who is the professional lead reporting into the Corporate Director.
Specific duties and responsibilities include:
Providing high quality financial accounting and strategic management information in relation to the functions performed by the team.
This role leads on the production of the whole of the statement of accounts which is a series of highly technical and complex financial statements which is a 3-month project and runs to hundreds of pages of statements for which the statutory guidance changes each year.
Council’s professional lead on the delivery of annual accounts to ensure that there is high quality financial data across the council throughout the year including assurance and robust financial controls.
Providing strategic financial advice to support the short, medium and longer term decision shaping and making process.
In terms of strategic financial management information, this requires significant modelling of multiple scenarios and assumptions over 5-10 years for capital and revenue, building financial models.
Council’s professional lead on the delivery of the council’s production of annual accounts and returns, including grant claims and VAT return.
This requires significant manipulation of data and systems for the compilation of government returns across all services in the organisation. In addition, knowledge of complex partial exemption regulations for VAT.
Leading on the preparation of excellent annual Statement of Accounts.
Ensuring that financial data is robust on which to undertake modelling and base decisions, providing technical financial advice to the council in relation to complex accounting issues.
Professional lead on the setting on the council’s treasury management strategy, and relevant policy, procedures and controls.
The regulations are complex and change frequently. The investments and borrowings are multimillion pounds and require judgement regarding levels and timings.
Council’s professional lead in all relevant policies to mitigate financial risk and manage an effective financial control environment, and responsible for compliance to these policies.
Providing a high quality, centre of excellence for all financial transactions, in line with national best practice and be the business owner of all practices and processes.
This will include being the council’s owner of financial data and steward of retention and archiving policies.
If you to wish to discuss this position further, please send over an up-to-date CV and give me a call on (phone number removed)