Description
Role: Finance Manager
Location: Birmingham
Duration: 6+ Months Initially with possible extension
Roles & Responsibilities:
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the Director of Finance & Corporate Services (or the Chief Executive whilst this post remains vacant), the duties and responsibilities include:
- Advising on and preparing supporting information in support of the annual budget bid to the Ministry of Justice; preparing the annual internal budget in line with the delegated budget and the Business and Corporate Plans
- Advising the Accounting Officer on matters related to the application of financial controls and restrictions, including assisting with the preparation of exemption business cases;
- Leading on significant procurements, including the preparation of specifications, the use of appropriate pan-government contracts and frameworks, and the running of procurements using the relevant on-line tools
- Acting as the risk Co-ordinator, maintaining the risk register in consultation with the risk owners and ensuring all risks are reviewed at least quarterly;
- Acting as secretary to the Audit & Risk Committee, including planning agendas and preparing papers;
- Overseeing the day-to-day operation of the Finance function
- Managing the Commission's working capital requirements, ensuring the Commission has sufficient cash to meet its needs and making the necessary monthly grant in aid
- requests
- Implementing management and financial accounting policies, procedures and systems, reviewing their effectiveness and efficiency and developing them as
- necessary
- The production of statutory accounts in accordance with the current version of the Government Financial Reporting Manual, including liaising with the Head of Communications on timetables and dealing with MyCSP and the Government
- Actuary's Department in respect of pension disclosures
- Preparing monthly and quarterly financial information for budget holders, the Board and the Ministry of Justice in accordance with reporting timetables
- Overseeing the preparation of monthly, quarterly and ad hoc reports
- Liaising with external payroll administrators
- Liaising with internal and external auditors and implementing accepted recommendations made by them;
- Liaising with the HM Revenue and Customs as appropriate
- Managing the fixed asset register, ensuring depreciation is appropriately calculated
- Training and supervising Finance staff as appropriate
- Developing and presenting finance training to non-finance staff, both as part of their induction and subsequently.
- Specific tasks and priorities will be determined on an annual and rolling basis to reflect the Commission's then current and projected requirements.
The duties and responsibilities also include:
- Liaising with Commissioners and staff to provide a responsive service;
- Working closely with Casework, Communications, BAT, HR, and IT to achieve the Commission's objectives and goals complying with the Commission's security and other policies and procedures other duties as required.
Personal Qualities, Qualifications and Experience
Candidates must have:
- An appropriate CCAB professional accounting qualification
- Significant post-qualification experience including cash flow management and financial reporting
- A high level of analytical ability and experience of summarising various types of information
- Excellent IT skills, especially Excel
- Experience in the use of accounting packages
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances
- Experience of producing budgets
- Evidence of supporting managers through timely production of management information and advice
- Experience of dealing effectively with external agencies, (eg HM Revenue & Customs) the interpersonal skills to work as part of a small team
- Knowledge of public sector accounting and procurement requirements is also desirable.