Deputy Principal Accountant

Hays Senior Finance; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Deputy Principal Accountant to join the Northern Ireland Civil Service. The role offers a work/life balance with hybrid working options and responsibilities including financial modelling, oversight of a capital budget, and providing strategic financial advice. This position is ideal for members of an accredited accountancy body looking for a fulfilling role within the public sector.

Benefits

37 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Hybrid working model

Qualifications

• Must be an active, paying member of ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent.
• Experience in financial monitoring and reporting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist in monitoring business case teams and complex financial modelling.
• Provide financial input and analysis for high-value capital business cases.
• Oversee capital budget of £100m for the Urban Villages programme.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Financial Modelling

Liaison with Economists

Oversight of Budget

Strategic Financial Advice

Education

Active Member of an Accredited Accountancy Body

Job description

Your new company
Are you looking for the work/life balance to actually put down your laptop and not have to look at it again until the next working day? Sounds like a dream, doesn't it?I am recruiting for a Deputy Principal Accountant on behalf of the Northern Ireland Civil Service for the Executive Office-Urban Villages, which offers the work/life balance everyone deserves and that hybrid/ flexibility needed.

Your new role

• Assist the Finance and Governance Manager in monitoring the work of the business case team and help prepare complex financial information/modelling in relation to capital project business cases for internal review groups within TEO.
• This would include liaison with economists and finance functions.to provide financial input and financial analysis for a range of high-value, complex capital business cases, including engagement with VAT advisers on a number of projects.
• Assist the Finance and Governance Manager in providing oversight of the revenue funding streams and review financial monitoring/profiling information on community-led and cross-cutting strands of the programme.
• Assist the Finance and Governance Manager to manage and oversee the capital budget associated with the Urban Villages programme (circa £100m). This includes providing advice and guidance on the financial transactions and accounting for the transformational projects that are in the pipeline within UV.
• Assist the Finance and Governance Manager in providing strategic financial advice on the Urban Villages programme to the UV Programme Director, SRO, Finance Branch and the Urban Villages Programme Board.
• Assist the Finance and Governance Manager in maintaining and advising on the UV handbook containing processes for grant payments, audit requirements, economic appraisals, financial transactions and governance arrangements.
• Assist the Finance and Governance Manager in managing the Post Project Evaluation of all projects completed within Urban Villages and ensuring guidance is provided in reference to these.

What you'll need to succeed
Active, paying member of an accredited accountancy body (ACA/ACCA/CIMA etc.) or to be of an equivalent qualification standard.

What you'll get in return
£26.41 p/h £43,584 annually, 37-hour working week, 37 days annual leave, 2 days in the office and flexible working options.

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