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SalaryCIPFA-Penna are delighted to be working with a local authority who is currently looking for an interim Group Accountant within Adults Social Care for a period of 3-6 months.
The Group Accountant post is the lead financial support role to a service division, covering all financial issues (primarily management accounting). The post manages a small number of direct reports.
Main areas of responsibility;
- Oversees production of the three main pillars of the annual budget cycle (budget setting, budget monitoring and accounts closing) accurately, to timetable and with clear audit trails of workings, across capital and revenue for division being supported
- Manages Service Accountant and Accountancy Assistant posts supporting same division and ensures team is fit for purpose
- Support Head of Finance, Assistant Director of Finance and senior management in provision of relevant financial information
- Ensures the team provides high quality and informed financial advice at all levels of operational decision making, with budget holders being challenged on decisions where necessary
- Quality assures key financial information that leaves the team, including budget setting, monitoring and closing documents, Freedom of Information requests, statistical returns and all other relevant items
- Ensures the team provides a customer focused service and builds strong working relationships, particularly with the division being supported, and also more widely across the authority and with external stakeholders
Based in Greater London, hybrid working.
You must be CCAB qualified and experience of having worked in a local authority environment.
Please contact me for further information - catherine.bush@penna.com
