Financial Accounting Manager

Reed; England; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Reed in Kent seeks a Head of Financial Accounting to lead budgets, ensure ledger integrity, and guide final accounts closures. You will coordinate medium term financial strategy and provide strategic financial advice on technical accounting issues.

The role requires a fully qualified professional accountant with senior-level public sector experience and strong leadership, communication, and process-management skills.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified status with a professional accounting body.
• Extensive post-qualification financial management experience at senior level.
• Understanding of public sector finance and regulatory environment.
• Proven track record of coaching and motivating finance staff.
• Excellent communication and project planning skills.
• Innovative mindset and continuous performance improvement.
• IT literacy with MS Office suite.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation, maintenance and monitoring of revenue and capital budgets.
• Provide strategic financial advice and problem solving to budget holders.
• Direct officer, staff and pension budgets via general ledger data.
• Direct and coordinate closure of final accounts and statements.
• Control costing and financial issues for major incidents.
• Develop and maintain systems to monitor financial performance.
• Lead the finance team with direction and leadership.

Skills

Public sector accounting

Team leadership

Budgeting

Communication

Education

Professional accounting qualification (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

Head of Financial Accounting

Location: Kent
Salary: £300 Per Day
Contract: Full Time

In this role, you'll be at the centre of managing and coordinating the preparation, maintenance and monitoring of Revenue and Capital Budgets, general ledger integrity, and the closure of final accounts. You will also co-ordinate the medium term financial strategy and provide strategic financial advice and problem solving on all technical accounting issues.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the preparation, maintenance and monitoring of the revenue and capital budgets, Balance Sheet and the closure of the final accounts.
• Provide information, strategic advice and problem solving to meet the needs of the Chief Officers and budget holders.
• Direct the setting of officer, staff, and pension budgets and non-pay budgets via the extraction of information from the general ledger.
• Direct and coordinate the closure of final accounts and the production of the statement of accounts.
• Control and monitor all costing and financial issues for planned and ad-hoc major incidents.
• Lead the development, implementation and maintenance of systems to monitor financial management performance.
• Manage and motivate team and individual performance, providing direction and leadership.

What you'll bring

• Fully qualified status and oversight by a professional body.
• Comprehensive relevant post qualification financial management experience including at a senior management level within a large organisation.
• An understanding of public service finance and its regulatory environment.
• A proven track record of managing, coaching, supporting and motivating finance staff in both technical and personal development.
• Strong communication and representational skills, both verbal and written, combined with strong project planning and process management skills.
• A commitment to innovation and continuous performance improvement.
• IT literacy and with a range of Microsoft products such as Word and Excel