Finance Officer (REMOTE)

Essential Employment; Ellesmere Port; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is looking for a Finance Officer to work remotely in Ellesmere Port. The successful candidate will support audit tasks on fixed assets and leases, perform reconciliations, and provide financial analysis. The role requires strong analytical skills and attention to detail. This is a full-time position on a temporary contract basis.

Qualifications

• Experience in audit-related work regarding fixed assets and leases.
• Proficiency in financial reconciliation and performance management.
• Ability to prepare, collate, and analyze financial information.

Responsibilities

• Support audit-related work around fixed assets and leases.
• Co-ordinate monitoring of performance against budgets.
• Prepare and analyze financial and non-financial data.
• Conduct service reviews and special investigations.
• Identify performance risks and integrate into business plans.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Attention to detail

Ability to work to tight deadlines

Job description

Overview

Finance Officer (REMOTE) needed in Ellesmere Port, £21.65ph - Reference: 5275524

• The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting audit-related work around fixed assets and leases, ensuring that all relevant information is accurate, compliant with statutory requirements, and available to auditors in a timely manner.
• In addition, the postholder will support the reconciliation of key control accounts, helping to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the financial data.
• The role ideally requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work to tight deadlines.
• The position will be undertaken on a remote (homeworking) basis.

1. Provide advice and support to senior managers in the preparation of Directorate plans, capital programme, revenue budgets and overall performance to ensure that these are set in accordance with the Finance and Contract Procedure Rules, Corporate Performance Framework and statutory reporting requirements.
2. Co-ordinate the monitoring of in year performance against capital and revenue budgets and key performance measures, supporting senior managers and budget holders to develop robust performance management arrangements and to ensure that appropriate and timely management and remedial action is taken.
3. Prepare, collate and analyse appropriate financial and non financial management information for Service and corporate managers, including analysis of historic trends and future projections, to ensure that decisions are taken with full knowledge of resource and wider Service implications.
4. Undertake, under the direction of senior managers, Service reviews, special investigations and projects to ensure that inefficiencies, performance and budget variances and irregularities are investigated and reported.
5. Identify areas of potential financial and non financial performance risk to ensure that these can be investigated and appropriately reflected in business plans and incorporated, as appropriate, within Directorate and corporate risk registers.

This is afull time role on a temporary contract basis.

How to apply

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV [e-mail] the reference number.

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