Description
SC CLEARED//FINANCE//COST MANAGEMENT//ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT//SC CLEARED
My central government client is looking for a finance administrator to liaise with relevant teams on specific financial issues for their ongoing defence project.
Main duties of a suitable candidate:
- Provide working level support to the recording, analysing and reporting of project costs and undertake related cost control activities. With supervision, reflect agreed budgets within the relevant financial and performance reporting systems such as PB&F.
- Update to reflect changes, maintaining audit trails.
- Ensure financial systems are maintained to inform accurately the project's in year and EAC position.
- Interrogate systems to meet forecasting and other performance reporting requirements as necessary.
- Maintain historical data on the project's cost performance to support learning from experience; and scrutinise/approve business cases in accordance with delegated levels of financial authority.
- Be aware of cost management functions, including cost estimating, cost control, financial reporting systems and cost analysis;
- Be aware of the principles of public finance and key government financial regulations
- Be knowledgeable of specific finance and accounting reporting systems which impact Project Controls, specifically the Annual Budget Cycle (ABC) and Quarterly Review of Programme Costs (QRPC) and the relationships between these processes and their relationship to in year management and project budgets and forecasts
- Be aware of the principles of earned value management (EVM).
Essential:
- SC clearance is required
- Knowledge of DE&S policies and procedures for Project Controls.
- Working level knowledge of DE&S financial systems, and the various MOD financial feeder and reporting systems
SC CLEARED//FINANCE//COST MANAGEMENT//ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT//SC CLEARED