Interim Technical Accounting Officer Immediately Required
Our client, a prestigious local authority in the South West, is looking for a Technical Accounting Officer to come on board for an initial 3 month contract that is likely to be extended.
Location: South West (Fully Remote)
Hours: 37 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
Contract Length: 3 months +
Daily Rate: £250 via Umbrella
Vacancy: 59385
Day to Day Duties:
- Ensure that statutory, corporate and departmental deadlines are met for central budget preparation including knowledge of past trends in order to assist in setting future budgets
- Using previous year’s data, estimate the following years charges and meet with budget holders to discuss budget controls and identify savings and pressures within the service
- Reconciling and assisting with monitoring accounts, financial planning, investigating errors and processing accounting adjustments
- Provide financial information to senior colleagues to ensure departmental deadlines are met
- Prepare for closure of accounts and assist with end of year reconciliations
- Coordination and completion of statistical returns
- Realignment of budgets, making recodings, transferring incomes expenditures and budgets where necessary on consultation with senior colleagues
- Undertake accounting for very large amounts, including budget monitoring
- Undertake reconciliation of bank accounts to the control account and various suspense accounts
- Offer effective support across the Council of the capital programme, ensuring deadlines are met and providing accurate information on capital accounts, financial forecasting, grants and statistical returns and internal and external funding streams
- Arrange grant payments to voluntary bodies and ensure the officer makes the claim back to the Department Communities and Local Government in a timely manner
Essential Skills:
- AAT qualified or equivalent and/or demonstrable experience working in accountancy or audit environment
- Experience of using digital financial management systems or equivalent typing/word processing qualifications
- Awareness of Local Government Finance
To be considered for this position and for further information on this and other roles please send an updated CV to proberts@venngroup.comor call Peter Roberts or Oliver Attwood on 0117 930 8760