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Location

Bradford | United Kingdom

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Job description

What's involved with this role:

Interim Finance Assistant/Admin - Children’s Service

Job Ref: Bradford 5245623

Pay Rate: £25.00 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday normal working hours

Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6 months

City: Bradford, Yorkshire

The post will involve providing financial advice and support to stakeholders, including involvement in finance meetings with budget holders to enable them to effectively manage their budgets.

The position requires experience of working in a finance role including operating or auditing computerised or manual financial systems. The ability to use a range of computer applications is an essential part of this role including spreadsheets, word processing, databases, presentation software, internet and e-mail.

The role will involve budget setting, monitoring and reporting, support to budget holders/operators through regular budget meetings and development of more efficient and effective process to deliver management information.

The post holder will also assist the Principal Finance Officer in the production of the Council’s Statement of Accounts, related working papers and audit documentation.

NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via [email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF.

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:

4 GCSE’s including Maths and English, at Grade C or above, or equivalent qualification.
AAT Level 2 - Foundation Certificate in Accounting.

Skills & Experience:

Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience of providing financial advice and guidance to customers.
Practical knowledge of using financial systems including General Ledger and Business Intelligence software.
Able to prepare accurate and timely financial management information.
Able to prepare and submit and/or audit complex grant claims and returns that meet the statutory body/funding body and audit requirements
Reconciliation of actuals to forecast projections.
Able to develop and support initiatives that seek to improve working practices, systems and processes to support improved VFM and meet service priorities
Able to manage, develop and keep up to date procedure manuals and notes.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

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Job Ref: Bradford 5245623

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.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.

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Salary

£25 per hour