Essex County Council
Location
Chelmsford, Essex | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Category : Finance (Qualified)
Location : County Hall – C1, Essex County Council, Chelmsford
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Assistant Accountant – £22.00 per hour.
This is a part office, part remote role and candidates must be available immediately.
Job Purpose
The role is within our Strategic Finance and Insight team, which leads on planning, budgeting, reporting, insight and managing the Council’s funding position. The role will primarily focus on the Council’s funding position, working closely with districts and boroughs and other senior stakeholders in the finance team.
The Assistant Accountant will deliver all aspects of financial management reporting and budget setting, working with key members of the Finance team and budget holders to ensure the funding position is accurately monitored and budgeted for.
This role is responsible for the preparation of high-quality financial advice, information, and analysis to budget holders, across the financial cycle.
You will build strong relationships with finance colleagues, budget holders and all relevant internal and external partners and actively participate and contribute to projects.
Service/Functional Accountabilities
Deliver timely and accurate financial information throughout the financial cycle and provide advice to budget holders to ensure the effective management of budgets and value for money services.
Provides analysis and interpretation of financial and performance data to ensure the business can underpin their decisions with robust financial information and advice.
Supports budget holders and colleagues, sharing financial knowledge to ensure they understand the implications of unit costs and interpret variances more robustly. Deliver accurate financial estimates, forecasts and plans ensuring all identified risks are quantified, monitored, and controlled and mitigations appropriately recorded.
Supports and co-ordinates the timely delivery and preparation of information to ensure quality of financial information for both monthly reporting, business cases or projects.
Coordinate the delivery and deliver information to ensure the annual accounts closure programme can meet the agreed deadlines.
Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Minimum full AAT (Level 4) qualification or equivalent, plus one year’s experience as an Accounting Technician.
Strong excel skills, familiar with complex spreadsheet models
Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area.
Knowledge and understanding of financial management, financial planning and management for budgets and experience of providing financial advice to budget holders.
Experience of working with a range of financial systems and processes.
Evidence of working collaboratively and engaging with senior managers and finance colleagues across the finance function, together with good communication skills.
Experience of working in a large complex organisation and contributing to change.
Experience of supporting multi-disciplinary teams to achieve service outcomes.
previous local government experience?
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