DP Accountant - 12 month contract

Deputy Principal Accountant– 12-month contract

Location – Belfast Monday to Friday – 9am – 5pm

Salary - £39,500 - £42,000

Main summary of role –

Are you a skilled accountant with a passion for working in a dynamic environment? If so, we have an exciting opportunity with a leading provider of scientific research and services to government bodies for a position of Deputy Principal Accountant. As the Deputy Principal accountant, you will be responsible, alongside a team of Deputy Principal Accountants for the preparation of all aspects of the Department’s consolidated resource accounts.

Main duties of role –

• Assist with accountancy-focused tasks for multiple finance systems improvement projects, in preparation for onboarding to a new finance and business management system

• Re-structure and mapping of the organisations Chart of Accounts to match that of Account NI

• Introduce and embed a No PO, No Pay policy

• Reconciliations of all control accounts

• Management and development where necessary of system interfaces (CORA, ISLAND, AFBI220, new PO requisition API)

• Manage the testing of new builds of CORA to ensure functionality of the Finance module

• Liaise with the internal CORA admin team and external CORA supplier team to report and resolve functionality issues in relation with the Finance module.

• Lead, manage and motivate staff to ensure continuous improvement of the services they provide to the organisation.

• Ensure effective management of staff including absence and performance management.

Applicants must:

Have successfully passed the final professional examinations and be a full current member of one of the professional bodies.ANDHave at least two year’s practical experience, gained within the last five years, in one of the following: Financial Planning and Budgeting; Financial Accounting/Auditing, Financial Reporting and Costing or Development/Implementation of Financial Systems.ANDDemonstrable excellent Excel skills, with practical experience of using VLOOKUPS and XLOOKUPS

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