Management Accountant jobs in France
Chief Accountant
Job summary
A local governmental body is seeking a Chief Accountant to lead financial accounting tasks and manage the preparation of annual accounts. The ideal candidate will possess a relevant accounting qualification and have a strong background in financial management, including knowledge of complex VAT regulations. This role will involve overseeing a team and ensuring robust financial controls are in place, providing essential financial advice for strategic decision-making. The position offers a daily salary of £400 for a contract length of 3 months.
Qualifications
- Experience in managing financial accounting and strategic management.
- Strong understanding of complex accounting and finance principles.
- Ability to lead a team in a technical financial role.
Responsibilities
- Oversee budget management for staff and resources.
- Lead preparation of the Council's annual financial statements.
- Provide high quality financial advice to support decision-making.
Skills
Education
Salary: £400 Per Day
Hours: 37 Hours
Working Schedule: Monday to Friday
Contract Length: 3 Months +
Location: Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA148JN
A team manager responsible for a small team of specialist and professional staff in a discrete service or a large team of operational staff within the same service area. There may be more than one postholder at this level within the same functional or service area but each within a defined specialism. Will have responsibility for management of a direct budget for staff resources. Will report to a L3 head of service or a director. This role is a technical lead for the Council's accounts. It will report to the Director of Finance who is the professional lead reporting into the Corporate Director.
- Providing high quality financial accounting and strategic management information in relation to the functions performed by the team.
- This role leads on the production of the whole of the statement of accounts which is a series of highly technical and complex financial statements which is a 3-month project and runs to hundreds of pages of statements for which the statutory guidance changes each year.
- Council's professional lead on the delivery of annual accounts to ensure that there is high quality financial data across the council throughout the year including assurance and robust financial controls.
- Providing strategic financial advice to support the short, medium and longer term decision shaping and making process.
- Modelling multiple scenarios and assumptions over 5-10 years for capital and revenue, building financial models.
- Council's professional lead on the delivery of the council's production of annual accounts and returns, including grant claims and VAT return.
- Knowledge of complex partial exemption regulations for VAT, and manipulation of data and systems for the compilation of government returns across all services in the organisation.
- Leading on the preparation of excellent annual Statement of Accounts.
- Ensuring that financial data is robust on which to undertake modelling and base decisions, providing technical financial advice to the council in relation to complex accounting issues.
- Professional lead on the setting on the council's treasury management strategy, and relevant policy, procedures and controls.
- Managing investments and borrowings, multimillion pounds, with judgement regarding levels and timings.
- Professional lead in all relevant policies to mitigate financial risk and manage an effective financial control environment, responsible for compliance to these policies.
- Providing a high quality, centre of excellence for all financial transactions, in line with national best practice and be the business owner of all practices and processes.
- Being the council's owner of financial data and steward of retention and archiving policies.
If you wish to discuss this position further, please send over an up-to-date CV.
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