Accountancy Officer

2 months ago


London, United Kingdom Triumph Consultants Ltd Full time

**What's involved with this role**:
**Temporary Accountancy Officer - Finance**
**Reference no: Barnet RQ815698**
**Pay rate: £15.44 per hour PAYE** This role is responsible for the administration of financial processes and support systems; maintaining accounting and other records and ultimately, ensuring that the service runs smoothly. In support of finance managers, this role is integral to enabling transparency and efficiency in all transactions. Through the pursuit of some of the duties, you may be required to deal directly with residents and businesses, rendering you an ambassador not only for the service, but also for the Council. Key responsibilities:

- Produce reports from Integra and other peripheral systems to support in-year monitoring, year-end and statutory reporting.
- Assist financial managers in completion of quarterly, annual and ad hoc government and statistical returns, including WGA, RO, QRO and CO.
- Support maintenance of corporate registers to support year-end statutory disclosures e.g. Leasing Register and Grant Income.
- Prepare audit working papers for assigned areas and ensure these comply with audit requirements.
- Produce good quality and fully supported corporate reconciliations for assigned area (which may include bank reconciliation, debtors, reserves, Collection Fund, Trial Balance, grant income and recharges).
- Undertake general finance and administration tasks including maintaining shared folders, intranet pages, filing bank statements, raising PO and manual payments.
- Support head of finance officers in collating information in response to FOI, Public Inspection and ad hoc queries.
- Assist in the preparation of research and reports, under the supervision of a finance manager or assistant finance manager.
- Undertake a regular review of unallocated income posting to assess if any income can be allocated to the correct cost centre.

**“Role Requirements” - to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria**:
**Qualifications**:

- Studying towards AAT; CCAB, (preferably CIPFA), CIMA, CFA, or ACT foundations stage (stage 1) desirable.

**Experience & Knowledge**:

- Knowledge of the major issues facing local government, understanding of the national policy context, requirements and future direction for relevant service areas.
- Aware of and comply with standards of financial control.
- Experience of working effectively in an area with competing demands and tight time-scales.
- Experience of independently using financial modules in systems such as the general ledger and effectively using Microsoft.
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.

**Skills**:

- Reasonable interpersonal and communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences both horizontally and vertically, financial and non-financial.
- Ability to identify issues and resolve queries.
- Able to explain financial control issues and related responsibilities to other members of staff.
- Committed to corporate and collegiate working across the service.
- Well-developed IT skills (MS Office suite, financial systems, data visualisation tools.
- Resilience, not easily deterred in the face of challenges.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate, both written and oral, financial issues to both financial and non-financial managers, senior officers and external organisations.
- Strong IT skills using Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

**_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._**

**Other “Essential Requirements” - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items**:

- **Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.**
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.

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