Payroll and Financial Accountant - Kensington, Merseyside, United Kingdom - Triumph Consultants Ltd

Description

Interim Principal Financial Accountant –

Financial Services Job Ref:
K&C

Pay Rate:
£34.59 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours

Role Length:

This opening assignment is for 2-3 months City: Kensington, London Hybrid working The role requires someone with experience of working in a team that leads on closing the accounts.

They will be preparing the balance sheet and other notes in the Council's statement of accounts e.g. debtors, provisions, officer remuneration to name a few.

The candidate will oversee and help monitor balance sheet reconciliations and use their technical expertise to evaluate accounting treatments especially, but not limited to, balance sheet items.

Lead on closing the Council's annual accounts by internal and statutory deadlines and achieving a successful audit in areas of assigned responsibility.

Provide high quality professional and technical advice to members, senior officers, service finance teams and the wider organisation on a broad range of financial accounting and reporting issues, ensuring compliance with CIPFA Codes of Practice and Council financial regulations.

Represent Financial Management on a range of internal and external boards and forums and ensure the Council's interests, compliance with legislation and policies, financial sustainability and Value for Money are always considered.

Design and deliver training for trainers / super users, service finance teams and non-financial officers on a broad range of financial accounting topics.

Ensure that a system of strong internal controls exists in respect of financial matters within assigned areas, including routine compliance monitoring and spot checks.

Ensure that accurate financial returns, to both internal and external bodies including CIPFA, are made on a timely basis.

Identify and report system failures / weaknesses, explain the risk to key stakeholders, propose mitigating actions and implement controls to reduce risk and improve effectiveness.

Monitor balances on AR, AP, Payroll and holding GL codes against reports from SAP, identify and promptly resolve any discrepancies.

Critically review reconciliation submissions from service finance teams to ensure these are accurate and supported by good quality working papers, raising standards with individuals and teams as necessary.

Support the Financial Management Collection Fund Lead by reconciling monthly business rates and council tax cash income and refunds between SAP and Civica.

Monitor spend against specific and general grants, review grant award letters to ensure correct accounting treatment and advise Financial Strategy Team on budget creation for all grant income.

Undertake in year reconciliation of corporate and statutory GL control accounts, review submissions from service finance teams including reconciliation of local systems to SAP.

Contribute to planning the annual closure of accounts including preparation of timetables, guidance documents and templates.

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.

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