Description
Hi
Hope you are well.
I am looking to fill Data Manager role with one of our Client.
Position: Management Accountant
Location: Birmingham
Rate: £ per day
Duration: 3 months with possibility of extension
Essential skills and experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven record of building strong working relationships with customers, partners and stakeholders.
- Strong IT skills and proficient with MS Office applications (eg Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Oracle based finance system, collaboration and open Internet tools.
- Good written and verbal communication skills including excellent presentation skills.
- Ability to work in a culture of change and work with risk and uncertainty.
- It is a varied and interesting role which brings with it a set of commercial challenges, along with aspects of operational delivery and risk management.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Manage the month-end timetable and processes, ensuring that system data is reconciled, robust and aligns to delegations and commentary, highlighting potential areas for challenge; deliver the full financial picture for the agency and detailed reports at directorate or cost centre level, in conjunction with finance business partners lead in the production, development and presentation of the monthly finance reports and associated reporting pack for the Department and Agency's senior management team and Board respond to requests for ad hoc reports and information in a timely and professional manner, demonstrating awareness of departmental and other business drivers.
- Prepare and manage in year and multi year budgets using proven methodologies, for income and resource and capital expenditure, to timetable, ensuring strategic priorities and business needs are met. Produce and issue budget delegation letters to budget holders
- support development of business plans ensuring affordability, cost and benefits are clearly articulated.
- Support functions of cash management, financial accounting, governance, control and audit work closely with colleagues across finance teams and senior managers from business areas to ensure robust financial forecasts are in place, challenged and updated as required.
- Work closely with colleagues in policy, analytical and legal services to set, review and maintain fee levels that accord with managing public money and assure the financial viability of the Agency.
- understand the link between financial information and the operational drivers to develop cost analysis; to challenge forecasts, identify income and expenditure patterns and improve how this analysis is presented to senior management
- use analytical tools and processes to improve calculation and reporting of unit costs, and ensure all costs are captured and appropriately apportioned
- use demand forecasts to inform capacity planning, service planning and inform pricing strategy.
- Continuously develop and monitor fee income forecasts and take responsibility for monitoring and reporting against cost recovery targets, ensuring recommendations to achieve cost recovery are made in a timely manner and in accordance with business requirements
- contribute to the development of business cases and lead preparation of supporting financial case.
- Critically assess risk, quantify costs and benefits, and assess affordability with reference to Green Book and other extant guidance.
- Manage and coach junior staff, ensuring that professional training requirements are met for trainees be a visible leader within the organisation, championing best practise and supporting corporate initiatives
- promote the status of the finance function, supporting a culture of financial awareness across the business, while exerting control through a devolved management framework.