Financial Planning Specialist

4 weeks ago


Uxbridge, United Kingdom Carrington Blake Recruitment Full time

Job Purpose:

To provide financial planning and budget development support to accountants across the council, maintaining and developing financial models for all aspects of financial planning. The role involves assisting with analysis of the Council's main Funding – including Local Government Finance Settlements, CSR implications, and all future funding streams including retention of NNDR. The successful candidate will support the annual budget production process for the council and the monthly budget monitoring process.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

  1. To support the Principal Accountant to undertake an annual budget review exercises to develop the next financial year's budget, and to inform the medium term financial planning strategy.
  2. To assist with detailed technical analysis of funding announcements and changes and maintain financial models to assess their impact on the Council's overall funding, developing models further as required.
  3. To support the production of the annual revenue budget for the authority in conjunction with service areas, including the statutory requirement for setting council tax and the production of all required reports for CMT and members.
  4. To take responsibility as directed for specific aspects of accounting for the Collection Fund. Assist with modelling of the council tax base, monitoring and impact of CTB localisation, retention of NNDR, New Homes Bonus and any other related legislation.
  5. To assist with the analysis of the impact on Council Tax levels of spending plans, including comparisons against other authorities, as required.
  6. To support the monitoring of the receipt and use of all grant income to ensure correct recognition and use, and maintain processes for all corporate levy income and expenditure.
  7. To maintain the budget virement monitor and assist in the monthly production of control totals for budget monitoring and to support the collation of the monthly revenue monitoring report as required.
  8. To prepare financial statistical returns as directed by the Principal Accountant.
  9. Be fully conversant with the Council's General Ledger and Financial Information systems, and be able to assist other members of the Group in accessing and interpreting this information.
  10. To maintain an up to date working knowledge of the Authority's Creditor, Payroll and Income systems, in order to be able to resolve queries.
  11. To assist with and respond to any investigations and reports of the Internal Audit Section and External Audit, as required.
  12. Additional Duties for POA Grade:
    1. To take responsibility for specific financial models manage and develop the council's budget monitoring process, ensuring the process evolves in line with Council changes and to provide support to Senior Group Finance Managers as required.
    2. To take personal responsibility for the production of the budget book (or similar) and ensure information is adequate to support the needs of group accountants.
    3. To undertake additional project work as directed by the Senior Finance Manager.
    4. To represent the Senior Finance Manager or Principal Accountant as the finance expert in specific areas both internally and externally, delivering presentations and attending meetings as required.
    5. Assist in the preparatory work on the provision of comments on behalf of the Chief Finance Officer as to the financial implications of proposals contained in reports to Cabinet.

Umbrella Day Rate – £695.48



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