Financial Accountant - Children’s Service
Location
Bradford | United Kingdom
Job description
What's involved with this role:
Interim Financial Accountant – Children’s Service
Job Ref: Bradford 5245625
Pay Rate: Up to £500.00 per day PAYE depending on experience
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: Bradford, Yorkshire
The purpose of the role is to provide expert advice on a range of financial and accounting issues, ensuring BCFT complies with International Accounting Standards and will be responsible for ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with regulatory requirements. This role involves maintaining financial records, preparing financial statements, analysing financial data, and providing recommendations to improve financial processes.
The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of accounting principles, practices and regulations within a medium sized public company, (ideally a Childrens Trust) with excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Support the lead financial accountant on year-end accounts production.
Liaise with auditors to answer queries on year-end audit.
Liaise with a range of stakeholders to obtain evidence and assurance for key accounting adjustments.
Assist with month-end management accounts processes and adjustments.
Maintain and reconcile the general ledger (including the Contract and SLA’s), ensuring all transactions are properly recorded and classified.
Oversee accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, including vendor payments, customer invoicing, and credit control.
Conduct regular bank reconciliations to ensure accurate cash balances, including the Trusts cashflow and forecasts, and identify discrepancies for resolution.
with month-end and year-end closing processes, including accruals, prepayments, and fixed asset reconciliations.
Analyse financial data and performance indicators to provide insights and recommendations to management for better decision-making.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Qualified Accountant, preferably CIPFA.
Full professional membership of CCAB, CIMA or overseas equivalent body
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Knowledge and understanding of accounting standards .
Experience creating financial models and analysing financial data (in Excel or other financial reporting products).
Ability to work to the tight deadlines of a year-end accounts production.
Excellent communicator with the skills to liaise with a range of stakeholders both finance and non-finance.
Able to interpret/analyses highly complex financial and statistical data, and report and communicate with multiple stakeholders.
Effective leadership, interpersonal, influencing and change management skills.
The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Excellent communications, engagement and active listening to the needs of the business units, able to ask the right questions and adjust to the learning needs of the business units.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Job Ref: Bradford 5245625
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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