Financial Accountant

Financial Accountant required to work with a Government department. This is an initial 6 month contract, paying £678 a day, inside IR35, hybrid working.

Job Description:

• Generation and submission of quarterly VAT returns.
• Liaising with the external audit team as the administrative point of contact for our Interim and Final audits, maintaining comprehensive workings and reconciliations to support them.
• Supporting the preparation of our various Returns.
• Supporting our delivery and operational finance teams with accounting, policy and VAT issues liaising, where required, with our colleagues in Head Office.
• Maintaining our Assurance Framework and guiding the finance community on assurance activities across the function.
• Preparation of statutory financial statements in accordance with the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Process Stewardship of our financial processes and coordinating activity to refresh our process content on the Themis Management System.
• Providing quality oversight and assurance of financial information, actively encouraging innovation and improvement both within the finance community and with wider influence.
• Identifying and supporting improvements to business processes, considering organisation effectiveness and not just short-term savings.
• Working with our Systems and Reporting team to continuously improve processes and outcomes for our community and our stakeholders.
• Ensuring the finance team maintains its objectivity, impartiality, independence and integrity in adhering to professional code of ethics, applicable accounting and reporting standards and other corporate policy/guidelines.

Essential:

• Understanding financial statutory accounts.
• Financial accounting expertise.
• Keeping up to date with financial reporting requirements (IFRS, FReM).
• High delivery focus and integrity.
• Competent with Microsoft Excel.
• Good working relationships internally (cross-functional and other finance staff), and externally.
• Effective communication in various mediums, including presentation of complex data, at all levels of the organisation.
• Personal resilience in dealing with non-negotiable timescales and conflicting priorities
• Public sector experience
• Professionally qualified through CIMA, ICAEW, ACCA or other CCAB body

A career path that can demonstrate effective delivery of:

• Financial accounting and reporting.
• Audit liaison.
• Leading, owning and delivering successful accounting outcomes.
• Influencing without line management authority and building strong relationships with senior colleagues.
• Undertaking financial analysis quickly and accurately.
• Working to tight deadlines.
• Understanding current reporting/presentation tools and techniques.

Desirable:

• Advanced knowledge of financial technologies and Microsoft Excel.
• Awareness of government accounting and Managing Public Money.
• Experience within government.

Candidates will need an active SC clearance for this role.

Please apply should you fit the above criteria