Senior Management Accountant - Interims

BBS Recruitment is an independent recruitment agency for transport and logistics sector, supplying to a variety of clients across UK.

We are currently recruiting for Senior Management Accountant- Interims for our client based in Wokingham.

Responsibilities for Senior Management Accountant:

• Manage and control the financial liaison between service budget holders and the finance service.
• Ensuring finance oversight and scrutiny to improvement programmes, supporting review of processes with the directorate.
• Support and lead the development and implementation of the relevant Council s policies and strategies including the Medium-Term Financial Plan.
• To deliver effective and efficient services offering value for money, contributing to meeting the Council s ongoing financial challenges.
• Enable sound financial governance by providing effective and timely budget monitoring information to service directors and the Chief Finance Officer.
• Support a range of stakeholders, including Management, to ensure strategic financial decision making, deputising where appropriate
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, understanding their business needs
• Support FBP on financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, year-end closedown & and statutory returns
• Promoting strong financial governance and sharing best practice & support on legislative and guidance changes.
• To deliver timely, insightful and accurate reporting to management
• To identify, develop and support opportunities and initiatives to transform the delivery of services across the Council, promoting continuous improvement
• Assisting with delivery of training on financial acumen to upskill and develop management and the services

Requirements for Senior Management Accountant:

• Qualified or actively working towards Professional accounting qualifications, CIPFA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
• Good IT skills including office and accounting software such as Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel
• Able to interrogate & analyse data and information
• Presentation skills, able to engage an audience. Well-developed written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of successfully resolving complex issues that require an element of judgement
• Support and challenge the service to deliver service improvement & decision making
• Proven experience of supporting projects to successful outcomes
• Experience of administering processes to tight timescale and with high levels of accuracy
• Experience of working in a matrix management environment, where cross-team and cross-organisation working are essential

Hours Per Week: 37 (Predominantly remote. A max in the office of once per week, possibly less than that).

Rate: £362.19 per day

If you have the relevant experience, please apply with your CV.