Your new company
Hays Accountancy & Finance are working with a well-established local authority finance team who have an interesting Senior Finance Assistant role for a period of 18 months where you will be part of the team who prepare and monitor financial information and balances. This will involve extensive reconciliations across key departments of the organisation.

Your new role
As the Senior Finance Assistant, you will play a key role in maintaining financial integrity across the Council by ensuring accurate reconciliations, supporting month-end and year-end processes, and providing clear financial analysis and guidance to service departments. This role requires strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage priorities to tight deadlines. Your key duties will include:

• Monitor & reconcile various bank and control accounts, including payroll, on a monthly basis and ensure issues are identified and corrections actioned.
• Advise & meet with departmental representatives to investigate journal entries and ensure reconciliations are understood.
• Assist in the closure of the Council’s accounts and other statutory reporting requirements by completing appropriate adjustments and allocations relating to capital and revenue income and expenditure.
• Assist in the preparation and production of the Statement of Accounts
• Analysis of expenditure to include reporting on significant variations and trends
• Maintain accurate schedules and working papers to support audit and internal review.
• Support process improvements and contribute to the development of reconciliations, controls and reporting tools

You will be an AAT Qualified or Part ACCA, ACA or CIMA finance professional with proven experience in bank and control account reconciliations, including reconciliation of payroll data. We expect you to have strong Excel skills, along with excellent analytical skills for investigating queries and the ability to interpret financial information in a clear, actionable manner.

As you will be supporting various departments, you will be confident in person and able to explain accounting issues to non-finance stakeholders and used to working to tight deadlines and have experience of ideally, local government accounting or statutory reporting.

What you'll get in return
As explained, this is an 18-month contract starting in the coming weeks and will pay circa £30,000 - £34,000 working on a flexible hybrid working policy of 5 days a week with 3 days in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. Therefore, they are flexible on your location provided you attend the office.

What you need to do now
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