Accountant

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit an Accountant for an initial 9-12 month contract on a rate of £250-£300/day (inside IR35). This role will be hybrid working.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and enhance detailed cashflow reporting based on historic events. 
- Provide support to the finance and asset teams, and working with a third party VAT adviser, to undertake a detailed VAT review of the business, specifically linked to options to tax for properties.
- Ensure that an effective and efficient customer-focussed service is provided to internal and external customers though helping with business as usual finance team activities, and other ad hoc reports as required.
- Provide assistance to and liaise with external and internal auditors as required.
Essential Skills:
- Fully qualified Accountant (CA / ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
- Proven ability to focus on key priorities when under time pressure and to manage competing demands.
- Proven ability to work with colleagues and customers from a wide variety of different business backgrounds and to articulate, succinctly, financial issues and outputs in a professional and appropriate way to the corporate norms of Crown Estate Scotland. 
- Extensive experience of financial management and analysis, including cashflows specifically is desirable.
- Excellent numeric skills and keen attention to detail. 
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office Excel and working knowledge of other MS Office products.
- Thorough understanding and experience of working with financial accounting and reporting software including detailed working knowledge of integrated ledger accounting systems.
- In-depth working knowledge and understanding of VAT. Exposure to property VAT, and partial exemption VAT returns is highly desirable though not essential
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please get in touch.