Description
Sopra Steria Recruitment is working in partnership with a major public sector client in the UK. We are currently recruiting a Financial Control Lead for an initially 3 month contract based in London.
Responsibilities :
- Ability to analyse and interpret complicated financial and non-financial date.
- Strong problem solving skills, and able to make effective judgement.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long term time-frames and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Ability to use Microsoft office tools (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MD Access) to a proficient standard.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Manager, with the aim of improving deliverable and compliant to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Must be able to priorities own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- To ensure that the financial ledger is robust including the running of systems reports and the clearance of all suspense codes promptly and accurately.
- To reconcile all control accounts regularly, promptly and accurately ensuring corrective action is taken in accordance with agreed timetables.
- To ensure that the 'soft and hard close'timescales are adhered to on a monthly basis in accordance with the time table.
- To assist in the production of the annual accounts with responsibility for specified notes, in accordance with accounting standards and timetables.
- To prepare notes and working papers to support the completion of corporate/statutory returns.
Sopra Steria Recruitment Limited acts as both an employment business and as an employment agency.
Please Note: Shortlisted candidates would be contacted via Call/Email.
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