Our Client in the Educational sector seeks a Senior Finance Officer to join their team on a permanent basis. The Senior Finance Officer would require a strong background within budgeting and excellent attention to detail.
Duties of the Senior Finance Officer include:
- Prepare budget templates based on established guidelines
- Coordinate budget schedule and review budgets received.
- Enter individual budgets into master budget and test for reasonableness
- Import budgets into accounting system
- Assist with annual budget preparation
- Provide mid-year budget projections.
- Monitor monthly reports for budget to actual variances
- Ensure all expenses are within the assigned budgets
- Prepare and reconcile bank statements
- Update contracts and liaising with suppliers
- Maintain and reconcile general ledger
- Perform special projects as assigned
- Review internal controls, implement and/or update policies and procedures
Requirements for the Senior Finance Officer include:
- Minimum three years accounting experience with a focus on complex spreadsheet tasks using all aspects of excel including functions, charts, pivot tables and large workbooks with complex calculations
- Strong analytical ability, including the ability to quickly and effectively analyse, compare, and interpret data
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines
- Demonstrated expertise with computerized accounting systems Sage, Excel and Access
- Commitment to ensuring financial integrity, and ability to handle highly confidential information with discretion
- Strong communicator
Benefits include, pension, generous annual leave entitlement, cycle to work, employee assistance programme, medical cash plan.