Description
My local government client has an urgent requirement for Project Accountant to work in North Hertfordshire.
To be successful in this role you must have extensive local government and shared services experience.
Responsibilities:
- Create a base budget for the potential shared service, co-ordinating activity and advising on all aspects of the financial impacts
- Develop and manage the Finance work-stream on the shared support service project.
- Coordinate all programme related financial activities
- Devise suitable approaches and templates for completing base budgeting and financial analysis.
- Produce a financial case for shared services, using accurate and up to date financial information provided by the partner authorities.
Main areas of activity:
Strategic Financial Considerations
- Investigate and advise on all aspects of the financial impact of sharing services, including staff pensions, VAT and tax
- Prepare and report on estimates of costs relating to workforce matters, including potential costs of staff transfers and redundancies.
- Report on the impact that shared service options may have on assumptions made in each authority's medium term financial strategy.
- Clarify how financial audits would be arranged for shared services.
Financial analysis
Prepare costings, estimates and financial scenarios to support the development of a robust business case and ongoing update work over the lifetime of the project to inform the business case and the
Programme Group/Programme Board including:
- Propose and conduct sensitivity analysis based on service options developed by the project team.
- Agree an approach for base lining the costs of the services and complete the baseline cost for all three authorities.
The 'Finance Professional' is required to have experience and strengths in the following areas:
Financial and budget analysis, Programme and project knowledge, Partnership knowledge, Planning and prioritisation, Risk management, Analysis, Communication and engagement, Facilitation, Meeting skills, Relationship Management.
Please send me your Cv as soon as possible