Head of Financial Accounts
4 weeks ago
The Disclosure and Barring Service is now recruiting for a Head of Financial Accounts to join their team.
Directorate: Finance and Corporate Services
Reports to: Head of Operational Finance
Salary : £53,400 to £62,000
Line Management: Yes
Security clearance level required: Standard DBS Vetting
Location: Must have base location of Darlington or Liverpool. Can work remotely but must attend the office based on business needs
About the Department:
DBS operates in the complex world of safeguarding, protecting people’s health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.
We provide a service that enables organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors to make better informed, safer recruitment and other decisions.
Job Purpose:
As the Head of Financial Accounts, your role will be to lead the Financial Accounts team, providing guidance and support in establishing a controls-based environment, to provide advice, and develop policies, to ensure compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations, and other government financial reporting requirements.
The Head of Financial Accounts is a senior member of the Finance team and is also responsible for providing an efficient, effective and high-quality professional service meeting all reporting requirements.
Essential Criteria
- Proven ability to communicate complex matters to a non-financial audience and to build effective relationships with senior stakeholders
- Strategic thinking, planning and analysis skills, with the ability to develop creative solutions to support the management of change and mitigate associated risks
- Excellent relationship management, influencing, facilitation and presentation skills
- Presence and credibility to work with senior colleagues across the organisation
- Highly organised and able to plan and manage a broad portfolio of activities
- Resilience in challenging circumstances: ability to work under pressure, remaining calm but decisive.
- Highly effective communicator in person, in writing and in electronic media.
- Highly developed people leadership, management and communication skills
- Successful relationship-building with own staff team members and wider Finance department
- Leading the annual report and accounts production process
- Managing the external audit process through to the delivery of annual audited financial statements
- Excellent knowledge of latest accounting standards (IFRS experience and FReM knowledge preferred)
- Communicating complex accounting and tax issues to non-finance stakeholders
- Developing financial policies, frameworks and procedures
- Best practice financial controls
- Experience within a senior Financial Accountant role and ability to draw upon practicable experience of managing multiple deliverables to tight timescales whilst implementing financial controls
- Experience of driving improvements in processes to increase efficiency
- Experience coaching and developing finance colleagues
- Must hold an accounting qualification from a recognised CCAB accountancy body or CIMA
For more information and to apply please visit: 24.41 Head of Financial Accounts
The closing date for applications is Monday 3rd June 2024.
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