Associate Director of Finance

Location

Lewisham, Greater London | United Kingdom

Job description

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in London, is currently looking to recruit an Associate Director of Finance for an initial 3 month contract on a salary of £91,317/annum. This role will be based onsite.

 
Responsibilities:

 
- Analysing and interpreting technical financial reporting standards, new statutory legislation and technical guidance and providing advice to the organisation on the impact of these.
- Accountable for setting and implementing organisation-wide accounting policy based on standards and legislation.
- Provide financial advice to colleagues across the organisation.
- Lead on budget setting across the organisation, including considering several methods and engaging stakeholders in the process.
- Presenting highly complex financial and business information to a variety of stakeholder groups.
- Acting as financial lead for Statutory External and Internal Reporting including the production of the Statutory Annual Report and Accounts, Financial returns and monthly Finance Committee and Board Reports.
- Active management of the financial position of the organisation, particularly thorough the Finance Business Patterning and Productivity and Efficiency teams
- Medium and long-term strategic financial planning and modelling including providing technical accounting advice to support significant developments and business cases and assessing the impact of these plans organisation-wide.
- Ensuring Standing Financial Instructions and organisation-wide Financial policies and procedures are developed, implemented and maintained to minimise risk.
- Overall responsibility for the management (including budget management) of the finance department within the portfolio of the Associate Director of Finance
- Develop and provide leadership to the Business Partnering function
- Identification, measurement and management of impact of risk, and minimising exposure to risk.
- Accountable for producing risk-based organisation-wide financial controls in line with best practice and ensuring compliance with these controls.
- The post holder is accountable for the oversight of the Counter Fraud Service
- Oversight of the development of databases and financial systems to be implemented within Finance, or interface with Finance systems ensuring the integrity of the organisation’s computerised financial ledger system is maintained and appropriate information can be reported.
 
Essential Skills:

 
- Educated to degree level.
- Expert specialist knowledge of financial and accounting procedures including current legislation and accounting policies.
- Professional Chartered Accountancy Qualification (CCAB).
- Evidence of recent CPD including specialist training and experience relating to finance as well as national accounting standards.
- Extensive post-qualification experience in a large and complex organisation with significant autonomy.
- Extensive experience of business partnering model
- Extensive involvement with year-end accounts preparation, financial planning, forecasting and scenario analysis and the production of robust financial information, including highly complex financial modelling.
- Networking: being able to work within and external to the organisation with credibility out of area.
- Experience of liaising with internal and external auditors.
- Awareness: up to date with the policy, national directives and all Governance aspects but with a specific emphasis on finance.
- Significant and demonstrable previous experience or demonstrable capability and capacity for leading and managing staff.
- Experience of developing and embedding new financial control and governance arrangements.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal.
- Ability to communicate highly complex and sensitive information to large groups.
- Ability to challenge and effectively manage and deal with highly contentious situations and issues.
- Sound political judgment and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, information and diverse interest groups.
- Highly developed influencing skills
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative ways of working and partnerships.
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude.
- Proven ability to make significant contributions to long term organisational strategy.
- Proven ability to prioritise workload in a dynamic work environment and instruct and direct others which deliver positive outcomes.
- Specialist knowledge of Accounting Standards (IFRS), Manual for Accounts, Charity Commission requirements, VAT and Tax legislation and Employment Laws.
- Has the drive and energy to make things happen; frequently goes "above and beyond" the call of duty.
- Has resilience, patience, authority, gravitas, and an ability to influence widely.
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes.
- Demonstrably involves patients and the public in their work.
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Actively develops themselves and others.
- Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation.
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness.
- Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
 
Desirable Skills:

 
- Post graduate degree
- Management of shared and outsourced services
- Commissioning of procurement process / tender
- Evidence and demonstrable success of leading and facilitating significant change programmes within finance.
- Experience of PFI accounting

 
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