Positive Employment is currently recruiting for an Accounts Technician for our client a government organisation in Lincolnshire, England.
The successful post holder will deliver good customer service, incorporating the organisation’s equality and diversity objectives and supporting the organisation to achieve best practice in all it delivers.
This role is a temporary contract initially for 5 months with the possibility to extend. This role is 3 days working at home and 2 days in the office a week.
Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:
*Support senior finance staff to accurately monitor revenue and capital budget preparation, budget monitoring and closure of the final accounts.
*Work with low-risk budget managers and support senior finance staff to provide financial intelligence underpinning the advice and guidance to budget managers. Assist in the delivery of effective financial planning and financial management in relation to all revenue and capital budgets.
*Provide customers and colleagues with the provision of accurate and effective financial information including the implications of low-risk service development proposals and statutory changes.
*Look to continuously improve services, identifying where possible, value for money savings and managing within allocated budgets.
*Structure financial data relating to key income and expenditure drivers enabling problems to be solved.
*Work with senior staff to provide financial intelligence underpinning budget manager advice and guidance.
*Responsible for maintaining accounts, verifying and posting approved journals and budget virements.
*Assist the budget setting process structure and monitor financial data relating to key income and expenditure drivers for low-risk budgets.
*Work within a sound financial control environment including structured, efficient, and compliant financial systems.
*Review Budget Holder outturn projections ensuring, in particular, that budgets are realistic, resources have been allocated promptly and outturn projections look reasonable in relation to spending to date.
*Assisting with the development of systems, processes and reports to help improve the accuracy of outturn projections, particularly for large, more volatile and higher risk budgets.
*Monitoring the delivery of efficiency savings throughout the year and reporting therein.
*Assisting Budget Managers with the evaluation of the value for money provided by Services.
*Assisting Budget Holders and Senior Managers in the development of detailed plans for use of grants and monitoring delivery of those plans, ensuring that grants are fully utilised.
*Supporting Budget and Spend Managers on the closure of accounts process adjusting the accounts through budget virements and journals to ensure that the organisation’s financial statements are accurate.
*Obtain information to enable FOI requests to be answered within the nationally set 20day response time.
*Assist with the bank account reconciliation for the organsiation.
Working Hours: Monday - Friday
Pay: £18.12 per hour
Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.