Assistant Finance Manager

Role: Assistant Finance Manager X 2 REF 65328
Contract Length: Until 31/03/2023
Location: Hybrid/Eastbury – Minimum requirement of 2 days in office– Monday must be one of those
Pay Rate to Intermediary: 500 per day
Security Clearance: SC

Spinwell is recruiting for an Assistant Finance Manager for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ASSISTANT FINANCE MANAGER

• Providing insight to the Business, Finance Leadership Team, and wider Finance teams
  • Providing the consolidated financial position at various levels within the organisation. Utilising information obtained from Finance Business Partner reviews to provide a draft of commentary, subject to the relevant endorsement.
  • Producing standardised reports / dashboards for monthly financial reviews and 10–year plan (ABC) screenings along with supplementary information to the FBP and Finance Leadership Team as appropriate.
• Optimising Performance
  • Enabling self service capabilities where possible, allowing individuals access to information without any intervention.
  • Although team members may support specific Business area(s), all team members will be expected to be flexible and cover Business areas as required.
• Routine Requirements
  • Producing instructions for completion of In Year and 10–year (ABC) financial processes, outlining agreed internal timelines for completion reflecting Strategic Head Office requirements.
  • Delivering the required information ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and meet the expected standards for:
  • Month end activities, ensuring your team utilise the correct accounting entries completed in compliance with relevant internal and wider government policy and a robust audit trail maintained.
  • Input of budget profiles into corporate reporting systems, validating these are sufficiently robust to form the baseline for future progress measurement.
  • Corporate system input is consistently delivered for your business area(s) for all aspects of in year and 10–year finances
  • Producing standardised templates / forms for recurring requests, advising what information is required and enabling efficient review, ensuring this aligns to the required policy where applicable.
  • Ensuring compliance with the relevant processes and policies and that an appropriate procurement route is utilised.
  • Engaging with the Business where evidence for manual accruals is insufficient and flagging issues, by exception, to the appropriate Finance Business Partner.
  • Ensuring all misbookings are to be corrected at source, removing any need for future manual intervention. Engaging with Project and Commercial staff to resolve any issues and work towards a right first–time input.
  • Establishing and ensuring effective controls are in place to maintain accuracy of data in financial systems and provide assurance on integrity of information on financial systems
  • Reviewing the Chart of Accounts, liaising with other parts of Finance to understand emerging requirements. Ensuring the structure remains current and consistent, verifying new requirements as legitimate.
  • Managing your team to maintain corporate systems access for Finance Staff.
• Continuous improvement
  • Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures.
  • Seeking feedback on the services provided, and continuously striving to improve the service provision. Promptly address any key issues that arise ensuring that processes or ways of working are adapted accordingly, and customers are informed where there is an impact.
  • Managing issues highlighted during internal or external audit, engaging relevant stakeholders to enable corrective action. Promptly addressing any misinterpretation of guidance, sharing with team members to promote embedding the lesson(s) learnt.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE ASSISTANT FINANCE MANAGER

• Relevant experience
• Comfortable working with data
• Budgeting
• Running reports
• Consolidating numbers– returns
• Understanding on forecasting and ABC
• Liaising with business partners

If you are an Assistant Finance Manager or looking to become an Assistant Finance Manager apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

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