Your new company
Our client is a major public service body in Sheffield who are looking to add a Finance Officer to their team to provide additional support to their Accountants and Finance Business Partners with clear, accurate and timely financial information.
37 hours a week - Hybrid working
CLOSING DATE FRIDAY 19TH JULY 2024
Your new role
Within the role, you'll provide support with budget setting, profiling all revenue, capital and grant budgets in accordance with the budget-setting timetable, updating the annual budget and reconciling the General Ledger as necessary. You'll monitor the budgets and identify, query and explain any variances to the Management Accountant and provide commentary on expenditure. You'll calculate all accruals, prepayments, collaboration adjustments and external recharges and ensure they are input to the ledger on a monthly and year-end basis. Supporting the Accountant, you'll run capital month end reports and monitor for variances. Lastly, you'll update staff costings, special costings and national framework agreement costings, collating information from various sources to arrive at the costs and assist with the completion of external returns.
Key duties:
- Year-End / Ensure all paperwork is completed in accordance with accounting and audit standards.
- Balance Sheet Management / Monthly, quarterly, and annual balance sheet reconciliations.
- Asset acquisitions and disposals / reconciliations of all company property, including vehicles, equipment, and properties.
- Fees / Ensure all costs are accurately coded, recorded, monitored, and collected in due time.
- Costing / Payroll for extra events, overtime, and external working events.
What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this role, you'll need to either hold a full AAT qualification or be close to completing the exams, with experience of working in a financial environment including budgetary control and year-end procedures that you can talk through.
You'll have the ability to analyse, critically evaluate and interpret financial information and have experience of using a computerised financial information system in a medium to large organisation (including General Ledger), with a knowledge of financial controls and rules regulation.
Experience with Oracle is preferred.
A background in public sector finance would be beneficial.
What you'll get in return
This role is being offered on a temporary basis until the end of March 2025. Competitive salary, with an abundance of public sector benefits.
The role will be operated in a hybrid style (50% office working).
Interviews will be booked w/c 29h July
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