Assistant Management Accountant

House of Commons

The House of Commons a unique and exciting place to work right at the heart of the UK's thriving democratic system.

Behind the scenes, the House of Commons Service is made up of more than 3,000 employees who support and facilitate the smooth day to day running of the House. They provide professional services to Members of Parliament, their staff, and the wider parliamentary community.

Staff Benefits

In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including:

• 30 days' annual leave (increasing to 35 days after first full leave year).
• Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
• Access to training and development.
• Flexible working.
• Interest free season ticket loan and bicycle loan.

Introduction

The Finance, Portfolio and Performance (FPP) team is critical to supporting a thriving Parliamentary democracy. We play a leading role in delivering the House of Commons' Strategy and corporate priorities through business and financial planning, analysing performance, and supporting the delivery of projects and programmes across Parliament.

The Role

The Management Accounting and Business Intelligence Team will drive the data and reporting agenda throughout the organisation. They will work closely with Finance Business Partners to support those with financial responsibility to use the system to make appropriate accounting records, ensuring that accounting records reflect business performance.

They will work closely with the Financial Planning and Analysis Team to understand the needs of the function and drive improvements in reporting and look for opportunities for standardisation.

Some of the responsibilities for this role include:

• An understanding of the value-adding role of Finance within the public sector, and a genuine commitment to integrating Finance as an enabling function within the business' decision-making.
• Oversight of team members and other's work, and developing leadership skills within and across teams.
• Building and maintaining key relationships, in particular developing trust and rapport.
• Ensuring that income and expenditure accounts are reconciled, maintained and appropriately accounted for.
• Capturing data for the financial system, liaising where necessary with the Systems Accounting Team, to ensure the integrity of information on financial systems.

Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate:

• It is essential that the applicant holds a Level 3 Finance Qualification (AAT, CCAB or equivalent) and are encouraged to work towards a Level 4 Professional Qualification (CCAB or equivalent).
• Ability to foster a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration between the business, finance and other corporate services.
• Ability to capture and prepare financial information to support decision making, experience in undertaking core month end financial processes.
• Ability to work successfully within a team, whilst upholding the values of equality, diversity and inclusion.
• The ability to plan and deliver work against tight deadlines to high standards of quality.

Next Steps and Additional Information

Application Form - If you would like to apply for this role, please submit an application providing evidence against criteria 2, 3 and 5 in the Job Description.

More information on the role and the full criteria can be found in the Job Description.

Please note that most job offers will be made at the minimum of the salary range, other than in exceptional circumstances.

Please ensure that you anonymise your application by removing any identifiable factors from your CV or Supporting Statement.

As part of the selection process, you may be required to complete a test or presentation. Further information will be provided to shortlisted candidates.

We may close the vacancy prior to the closing date stated due to a high volume of applications.