Management Accountant
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Birkenhead, is currently looking to recruit a Management Accountant for an initial 3 month contract on a rate of up to £16.53/hour PAYE. This role will be hybrid working with 2 days a week onsite.
Responsibilities:
– Take responsibility for a range of service budgets including their maintenance and monitoring arrangements
– Ensure coding of non-pay expenditure is correct and communicate any actions required for other users
– Liaise with Procurement and Budget Holders regarding coding of goods and services on purchase orders
– Ensure bills from suppliers are received in a timely manner and coded correctly
– Ensure invoices to customers are invoiced in a timely manner, coded correctly and back up available if queried
– Ensure staff grids are up to date, pay costs charged correctly, working with HR and Budget Holders to rectify any issues at source
– Prepare and upload all accrual, prepayment, accrued income and deferred income journals required to report an accurate financial position
– Plan the delivery of pooled monthly tasks on a rotational basis in line with the prescribed monthly timetable
– Check output for accuracy, reasonableness and clarity before publication
– Investigate and analyse the cause and effect of variances against plan, agreeing corrective action plans with Budget Holders. To escalate and seek guidance as necessary
– Plan and prepare the monthly briefing note and financial position statement for the services supported
– Provide financial support and advice to Budget Holders, handling contentious matters and providing solutions to issues that arise
– Establish good working relationships with Budget Holders, holding monthly or period meetings as required providing advice and challenge to budget managers which support the achievement of value for money and budgetary targets.
– Confidently present and translate complicated financial information to a varied audience
– Confidently present and translate non-financial information to Budget Holders
– Help identify potential Productivity and Efficiency opportunities with your services
– Provide education and training sessions for Budget Holders either in groups or on an individual basis on a variety of topics including SFIs, finance policies and procedures, understanding budget statements and staffing grids
– Contribute to financial forecasting for your services
– Contribute towards costings for business cases and tenders within the Trust
– Assist in the preparation of the annual workforce and financial budgets at budget setting
– Assist in the production of the statutory accounts, preparing working papers as required
– Assist with Freedom of Information (FOI) requests
– Cover for absences within the management accounting team
– Attend meetings on an ad hoc basis on behalf of the Management Accountants when required
– Identify any opportunities for improving the tasks and procedures within the team, implementing changes where required
– Provide training and support to others within the Department.
Essential Skills:
– Experience of using SBS Oracle
– Experience of Management accounts
– Can work 2 days a week on site.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Take responsibility for a range of service budgets including their maintenance and monitoring arrangements
– Ensure coding of non-pay expenditure is correct and communicate any actions required for other users
– Liaise with Procurement and Budget Holders regarding coding of goods and services on purchase orders
– Ensure bills from suppliers are received in a timely manner and coded correctly
– Ensure invoices to customers are invoiced in a timely manner, coded correctly and back up available if queried
– Ensure staff grids are up to date, pay costs charged correctly, working with HR and Budget Holders to rectify any issues at source
– Prepare and upload all accrual, prepayment, accrued income and deferred income journals required to report an accurate financial position
– Plan the delivery of pooled monthly tasks on a rotational basis in line with the prescribed monthly timetable
– Check output for accuracy, reasonableness and clarity before publication
– Investigate and analyse the cause and effect of variances against plan, agreeing corrective action plans with Budget Holders. To escalate and seek guidance as necessary
– Plan and prepare the monthly briefing note and financial position statement for the services supported
– Provide financial support and advice to Budget Holders, handling contentious matters and providing solutions to issues that arise
– Establish good working relationships with Budget Holders, holding monthly or period meetings as required providing advice and challenge to budget managers which support the achievement of value for money and budgetary targets.
– Confidently present and translate complicated financial information to a varied audience
– Confidently present and translate non-financial information to Budget Holders
– Help identify potential Productivity and Efficiency opportunities with your services
– Provide education and training sessions for Budget Holders either in groups or on an individual basis on a variety of topics including SFIs, finance policies and procedures, understanding budget statements and staffing grids
– Contribute to financial forecasting for your services
– Contribute towards costings for business cases and tenders within the Trust
– Assist in the preparation of the annual workforce and financial budgets at budget setting
– Assist in the production of the statutory accounts, preparing working papers as required
– Assist with Freedom of Information (FOI) requests
– Cover for absences within the management accounting team
– Attend meetings on an ad hoc basis on behalf of the Management Accountants when required
– Identify any opportunities for improving the tasks and procedures within the team, implementing changes where required
– Provide training and support to others within the Department.
Essential Skills:
– Experience of using SBS Oracle
– Experience of Management accounts
– Can work 2 days a week on site.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
