Senior Accountancy Technician

Senior Accountancy Technician

Job Ref: Cheshire5290588

Pay Rate: £23.43 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 Monday to Fridays, normal working hours

This assignment is for 9 months

Crew: CW1 2JZ

Hybrid working*2-3 times per month (depending on business needs) but will be required to attend office daily, for training for first 4 – 8 weeks

Immediate start

Essential candidate has management accounting experience

Our local authority client is looking for a Senior Accountancy Technician to work within the Place Finance team and support the Finance business partner in the delivery of the annual cycle of:

• Closure of accounts
• In-year monitoring
• Budget setting work to services such as Libraries and Housing
• Experience of providing finance support to managers is essential.

Responsibilities to include:

• Advise and liaise with operational managers and within the Finance Service to ensure that detailed capital and revenue budgets are prepared and maintained in order to meet the Council’s Financial Standing Orders and current policies and guidelines.
• Collate and analyse financial information and provide an advisory service to individual operational managers to satisfy their needs and meet the corporate requirements of the Council.
• Provide and evaluate data for incorporation within financial reports to committees to ensure that decisions are taken with full knowledge of all resource implications.
• Maintain and lead on the development of computerised accounting and other systems to satisfy manager’s and corporate needs, ensuring the preparation of final accounts and related returns for specific areas of responsibility allocated to the job, to meet with the Council’s procedures and statutory obligations and timetables.
• Review, in conjunction with individual operational managers, performance against targets to ensure that appropriate actions are taken in accordance with current financial and service policies and guidelines.
• Lead, Initiate and maintain relationships with schools with clients, suppliers and other relevant parties, to ensure effective day to day operation of the team and take remedial action to maintain continuity of service and high levels of customer satisfaction.

Skills and knowledge required:

• Member of Association of Accounting Technicians, or equivalent professional qualification
• Candidates ideally be AAT qualified
• Extensive post-qualification experience
• Sound working knowledge of financial practices and procedures
• Detailed working knowledge and practical expertise in the use of PC and mainframe systems
• Audit principles and practice
• Working knowledge and understanding of Council financial practices and procedures, or equivalent
• Good communication skills, both oral and written – able to convey complicated financial information to a range of audiences in a clear and concise manner
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, in particular Excel

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