Part Qualified Financial Accountant

Part Qualified Financial Accountant - Government Account - Outer London (Northwood) based Contract role - duration: 2 months

A Security Clearance Level  of SC is required for this role. Please ensure your SC clearance is valid before submitting your CV for this role.

The successful candidate must be Part Qualified/Currently studying for CIMA, ACCA or ACA and a strong user of Excel to include confident use of tools such as macros, pivot tables, Vlookups etc.

We are seeking a candidate that can get up to speed quickly in a very busy and dynamic government finance planning team.

Role:
Support the collating and manipulating financial reports to support Capability Branches in understanding/optimising their Core Programme
Financial analysis which may include production of and/or analysis of monthly or quarterly reports;
Investigating and resolving manager and business leader queries;
Supporting transfer of funds between Delivery Teams and other Commands.

Essential Skills:  Preparation of PowerPoint slides for briefing purposes and confident use of Excel.

Main Duties and Responsibilities: 

Assisting with production of reporting or management accounts; Reconciling statements; Balance sheet reconciling; Financial analysis which may include production of and/or analysis of monthly or quarterly reports; Investigating and resolving manager and business leader queries; Assisting manager and business leader with tasks at year end; Liaison with auditors; Supporting system changes for organisation restructure; Continuous process improvement.

Key tasks and deliverables;

Support the collating and manipulating financial reports to support Cap Branches in understanding/optimising their Core Programme Financial analysis which may include production of and/or analysis of monthly or quarterly reports; Investigating and resolving manager and business leader queries; Assisting manager and business leaders with financial tasks to support Programme and Capability Management and to provide assistance in understanding and optimising their Core Programme. Financial Critique of costed Options for change made by Delivery teams.  Provide financial information for the Annual Budgetary Cycle Planning submission to department centre. Continuous process improvement. Preparation of PowerPoint slides for briefing purposes. Confident use of Excel including macros, pivot tables, Vlookups etc Running and interpreting reports from Planning and Budgeting System - training will be given.

Closing date Wednesday 20th