Description
Job Title: Head of Finance
Location: London
Contract: 3 months (with possible extension)
Rate: £210 per day
Essential Experience:
- A sound understanding of contract law is required to interpret financial and compensation clauses to ensure TRP receives its entitlements.
- The role holder will need a sound understanding of government accounting and governance arrangements.
- The appointed person needs to be skilled to advanced level in Excel, able to download transactions and manipulate financial data using macros and pivot tables to produce information required for the annual accounts and audit, as well as presenting management information in easy to understand formats.
- The role holder will be experienced in the use of financial packages to process financial transactions and in producing reports from these.
- ACCA Qualified.
Key Tasks & Deliverables:
- Main Duties and Responsibilities: Effectively leading; managing; and resourcing the finance team including any significant external supplier of services.
- Ensuring that a proper set of accounts is kept and an accurate record of all transactions taking place in accordance with proper accounting and statutory requirements; including the production of year end accounts.
- Maintaining and achieving the performance indicators agreed for the finance team; in relation to the effective management of budgets and assets.
- Managing and overseeing the accounting system ie nominal and sub ledgers.
- Making sure that adequate systems of control are in place including reasonable segregation of duties.
- Ensuring that all necessary reconciliations are carried out on a monthly and annual basis as required.
- Managing and maintaining accurate fixed asset accounting and effective control of those assets.