Chief Financial Officer

3 days ago

Addlestone Surrey, United Kingdom Veterinary Medicines Directorate Full time

Salary: £73,165 + 25 days Annual Leave + Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 28.97% Location: The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and is responsible for ensuring the safety, quality, and efficacy of veterinary medicines in the UK.

We have a vacancy for Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Your role will be to take responsibility for all financial operations as CFO, including strategic financial planning, risk management, budgeting, and reporting. Additionally, you will provide financial advice for decision making and act as key partner to the CEO and others to achieve business goals.

have broad senior level finance experience of working in a complex organisation have experience of producing the annual accounts, requiring strong technical accounting skills, with up-to-date knowledge of accounting standards, able to engage with external audit (NAO) to achieve unqualified audit opinion
be skilled at evaluating complex financial issues
have experience of presenting to non-finance colleagues
have experience of risk management, audit and other relevant organisational governance.
IT skills: proficient in the use of Microsoft Office 365 packages, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)
ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)
CIPFA (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy)

To apply for this position, please submit your application through the Civil Service Jobs website. No Recruitment Agency, Newspaper or Publication calls please.

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