Accountant
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
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
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
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
