Assistant Finance Business Partner / Technical Accountancy Assistant

Powys County Council; Llandrindod Wells; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Powys County Council is recruiting an Assistant Finance Business Partner in the Schools Finance team. This role supports the Management Accounting Team that backs council services and is part of a transformation agenda to improve lives of residents, local businesses and visitors.

Based at County Hall, Llandrindod Wells with agile working including home and local offices, you should be AAT qualified or equivalent, able to work at pace, and have strong communication to liaise with non-finance

Qualifications

• We are seeking applicants who are AAT qualified or equivalent.
• Applicants must be able to work at pace and use finance systems proficiently.
• Excellent communication skills must be demonstrated and confidence to liaise with a broad range of non-finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Budgeting and accounting background with analytical approach
• Excellent oral, written, presentational and communication and negotiation skills at all levels
• Ability to relate to and win the confidence, trust and respect of customers.
• Ability to plan and prioritise effectively ensuring deadlines and targets are achieved alongside delivering on a diverse workload
• Excellent ICT Skills including experience of Excel and Finance Systems
• Ability to extract, collate, challenge and interpret financial and non-financial Information

Skills

Budgeting

Analytical

Stakeholder communication

Time management

Prioritisation

Education

AAT qualified or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Finance Systems

Job description

About the role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit to an Assistant Finance Business Partner post within the Schools Finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for you to join our Management Accounting Team that supports the Councils’ services. The council is pursuing an exciting transformation agenda to better meet the needs and improvethe lives of our residents, local businesses, and visitors: so it is a great time to join the Council. Finance plays a partner role to the service, driving decisions that enable and improve performance.

There will be a test on the day of the interview using Microsoft Excel.

The role is based in County Hall, Llandrindod Wells however the Council supports agile working which includes flexible working at home and at local offices.

About you:

• We are seeking applicants who are AAT qualified or equivalent.


• Applicants must be able to work at pace and use finance systems proficiently.


• Excellent communication skills must be demonstrated and confidence to liaise with a broad range of non-finance stakeholders.

What you will do:

• Budgeting and accounting background with analytical approach


• Excellent oral, written, presentational and communication and negotiation skills at all levels


• Ability to relate to and win the confidence, trust and respect of customers.


• Ability to plan and prioritise effectively ensuring deadlines and targets are achieved alongside delivering on a diverse workload


• Excellent ICT Skills including experience of Excel and Finance Systems


• Ability to extract, collate, challenge and interpret financial and non-financial Information