Senior Financial Accountant

3 weeks ago

Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom CRA GROUP LIMITED Full time
Job Summary

This is a highly technical and specialist role that requires extensive and up-to-date knowledge of the latest financial regulations and best practices. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the Council's financial planning and reporting processes, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation and standards.

Key Responsibilities
  • Oversee the Council's closure of accounts process, directing resources to produce the statutory Statement of Accounts and other related returns.
  • Keep up to date with developments in the public and private sectors through active involvement in regional and national networks, setting strategies to ensure compliance with these.
  • Equip the Audit Committee with knowledge of the latest accounting practices and the ability to understand the information in the accounts to fulfill their role, presenting the final audited accounts to the S151 officer and Audit Committee for approval.
  • Manage external auditor interactions, being the lead coordinator of requests for information, validating responses, and ensuring all is provided in a timely manner, building and managing relationships with the external auditors at all seniority levels and between the Council.
  • Set the strategy in response to auditor recommendations made, presenting counter-challenge, following up with an action plan, and directing resources or process improvements as relevant.
  • Plan and direct all accounting processes to ensure that the Council's needs and statutory accounting obligations are fully determined, delivered, and meet the latest accounting standards and professional best practice.
  • Deliver financial training to staff on accounting requirements and standards, including VAT, continuously enabling improvement to process and knowledge to be maintained over the long term.
  • Coordinate the Council's fees and charges, ensuring that the basis of the charge is clear and the VAT treatment is correct.
  • Set the strategy and ensures compliance of VAT regulations, reporting matters to the S151 Officer who is directly responsible, advising the Council on VAT and being the leading point of contact for HMRC on all VAT matters and inspections.
  • Develop and maintain the Council's financial procedures concerning the financial vetting of contractors hoping to trade with the Council.
  • Provide financial advice to the Head of Corporate and Director of Finance on the accounting treatment of technical accounting issues and to the whole Council on VAT, providing recommendations on action required.
  • Ensure the use of the MS Dynamics 365 finance system is used correctly by accounting and support staff to reflect proper accounting practice, for example, ensuring the appropriateness of internal vs external coding.
  • Ensure the Asset Accounting process and reporting regimes comply with regulations, to include directing the implementation and management of emerging new standards such as IFRS16 leases.
  • Maintain the Council's controls over banking, having oversight of the cash books, bank reconciliation, and directing of the Council's banking and cashier colleagues.
  • The lead officer managing the online BACs payment system contract and administration of the Council's online banking system.
  • Support the Council's treasury management activities through checking daily transaction proposals.
  • Lead the annual closing of the HRA account and understanding the impacts of the 30-year HRA business plan in collaboration with the relevant Strategic Finance Business Partner, with oversight of reporting requirements ensuring proper accounting treatment is separate to the General Fund and the management of fixed assets/investment charges to the HRA fund are appropriate and forecasted.
  • Provide clear leadership to deliver the Council's strategic priorities and meet the Council's financial targets as a member of the Directorates Senior Leadership Team.
  • Update and advise Elected Members in respect of operational and policy issues in relation to the Finance service teams.
  • Lead Finance teams with a clear identity in terms of flexible and responsive ways of working, inclusive and diverse culture, and high levels of employee engagement and wellbeing.
  • Undertake representational and communication duties on behalf of the Council to promote and protect the Council's interests in matters concerning their specialist areas.
  • Create, monitor, and review frameworks of performance measures and quality standards to be applied in the delivery of services.
  • Function as an ambassador for the Council, promoting both internally and externally the Council's vision, strategic aims, and values.
  • Value the diversity of Somerset's communities, ensuring equality of access and treatment in service delivery and employment.
  • Function as a role model for Somerset's vision and values, promoting a culture of continuous improvement that encourages creativity and innovation to ensure services are efficient and develop the potential and flexibility across the Council and its workforce, including the motivation and development of employees within the Finance service teams.
  • Ensure that Finance services place a high value on customer responsiveness by demonstrating a commitment to meeting and involving the broadest range of direct and indirect service users, citizens, customers, communities, and businesses.
  • Support the delivery of the Council's key strategic aims and objectives, ensuring understanding and commitment from staff from across the Finance service.
  • Support Corporate and Directorate and service-specific transformational change programmes with the aim of maximising efficiency, modernising services, and achieving better outcomes and opportunities for service users and customers.
  • Ensure flexibility in reacting to the needs of the Council, its customers, and partners, supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, the Council's standards of conduct, organisational policy, and professional codes of conduct to uphold standards of best practice.
Requirements
  • Extensive knowledge of the latest financial accounting standards and highly skilled at interpreting them.
  • Extensive experience and knowledge of VAT, its application, and implications on courses of action.
  • Substantial managerial experience and skills gained at a senior level, including contributing to the corporate management of an organisation where required.
  • Significant knowledge and experience of the development, agreement, and delivery of service plans.
  • Sound understanding and practice of multidisciplinary working.
  • Demonstrable experience of the effective deployment, continuing development, and supervision of professional and other staff resources.
  • Proven track record of establishing and managing partnerships/external stakeholder relationships.
  • Change management experience at a lead and influence level.
Additional Information
  • Fully qualified CCAB Accountant and with experience of working in a complex organisation.
  • This post will be required to work across legacy council offices for meetings etc.

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