HRA Accountant

Harper Recruitment • TRAFFIC • Essex, Not Specified, United Kingdom • £350 / * • 3h ago

HRA Accountant
350 per day
Essex / working from home
Temporary for approx. 6 weeks
Start Date: Immediate

We are seeking an interim HRA accountant to compile the HRA 30 year business plan. You will take and build upon the existing work and transform this into a new, modern and fit for purpose model. This model will clearly identify all assumptions made and will allow manipulation of these variables to undertaken scenario planning and sensitivity analysis. The model will contain all the detailed workings and have appropriate summaries to enable presentation to Senior Management. In compiling the model, you will check, challenge and refresh the existing work and will work closely with internal teams to refresh information and ensure there is robustness and accuracy throughout.

Duties will include:

Delivery of a HRA 30-year business plan model which allows for changing assumptions and summarises information for different audiences.

Provide advice and financial input into the company's financial planning processes including input and guidance into business plans, utilising financial modelling, options appraisal and risk analysis tools and techniques as appropriate.

Advise budget holders and other stakeholders of the financial implications of changes in national legislation or local practice.

Ensure compliance with financial regulations, protocol, and guidance

Provide robust challenge to budget holders, acting as a critical friend, to ensure their financial plans and projections are accurate and realistic.

Identify and support the business to become more commercial in its thinking.

To identify, investigate and support the reduction of cost pressures, saving opportunities and solutions through robust planning. To develop effective working relationships to support co-operative ways of working, effective decision-making and management of financial resources.

Skills/Experience Required:

CCAB or CIMA qualified
Extensive experience in Housing Revenue Account budgeting and accounting procedures.
Strong consulting and negotiation skills, including excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to quickly make strong and influential relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, providing both challenge and support
Ability to translate and explain complex technical accounting concepts into formats easily understood by non-finance staff
Ability to create detailed financial models which are easily maintained and understood by others
Demonstrates experience of providing advice, challenge and support to business/service areas in order to obtain the best possible outcomes and value for money
Extensive experience in the use of financial modelling and options appraisal techniques, particularly the use of spreadsheets and business intelligence tools.

Further information

This will be a time limited piece of work, estimated at no more than 6 weeks, with occasional on-site presence as required.

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