Financial Analyst (HRA)

The roles, responsibilities and requirements are as follows:

• Supporting the HRA Senior Finance Analyst and contributing towards preparation of the HRA annual statement of accounts and notes and dealing with subsequent audit queries
• Carrying out various checks and reconciliations, such as bank and balance sheet reconciliations, to ensure that all balances are intact
• Contributing towards the annual update of the HRA Business Plan and its regular monitoring
• Supporting the preparation of HRA budgets
• Assisting with collating financial data for various statutory housing returns
• Helping to ensure that the budget monitoring position is understood and mitigating corrective actions are taken where an overspend is projected
  
  

The role also provides financial support to budget holders in:

• Providing financial support to budget managers, presenting information on various financial matters
• Supporting the monthly budget monitoring and financial forecasting, including variance analysis
• Assisting in the submission of and understanding of various statutory and benchmarking returns
• Reviewing benchmarking information and supporting the service with identifying action plans for efficiencies and savings
• Supporting the HRA Senior Finance Analyst with budget modelling to determine financial impact of future service demands, changes in legislation and other factors determining resource requirements
• Supporting the delivery of various projects with financial implications and considerations
• Supporting services in identification of funding sources for projects and preparation of bidding documentation
• Supporting the annual closure of the accounts and ensuring statutory deadlines are met
• Assisting with reviewing the viability and value for money of various development schemes
• Maintaining awareness of the wider housing political and economic climate including assumptions around costs, market conditions, alternative/additional forms of financing and how these can be used to maximise housing supply

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