The public sector client is looking to recruit an Assistant Management Accountant for a short term temporary contract of 3 months (in the first instance), which, is a hybrid role, however you will be required to work in the office base in central London at least 2 days of every week.

Typical responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Providing insight to the Business, Finance Leadership Team, and wider Finance teams
Producing standardised reports / dashboards for monthly financial reviews and ABC screenings, along with supplementary information to the FBP and FLT as appropriate.
Although team members may support specific Business area(s), all team members will be expected to be flexible and cover Business areas as required.

Routine Requirements
Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of transactions on financial systems, with effective controls and checks in place.
Ensuring all required information is provided, outputs are accurate, timely and meet the expected standards for:
Month end activities, ensuring you and your team complete utilising the correct accounting entries completed in compliance with relevant internal and wider government policy and a robust audit trail maintained.
Monitoring, and where appropriate approving invoices, engaging with commercial and suppliers when required to resolve issues.
Reviewing and undertaking the input of budget profiles into corporate reporting systems, forming the baseline for future progress measurement.
Corporate system input is consistently achieved for your business area(s) for all aspects of ABC and IYM.
Utilising standardised templates / forms for recurring requests, advising what information is required and enabling efficient review, ensuring this aligns to the required policy where applicable.
Undertaking financial approvals of low value items, such as working functions, training, and professional subscriptions, supporting your team as required. Ensuring compliance with the relevant processes and policies and that an appropriate procurement route is utilised
Engaging with the Business where evidence for manual accruals is insufficient and flagging issues, by exception, to the appropriate Finance Business Partner
All mis-bookings are to be corrected at source, removing any need for future manual intervention. Engaging with Project and Commercial staff to resolve any issues and work towards a right first-time input.
Reviewing the Chart of Accounts, ensuring the structure remains current and consistent, verifying new requirements as legitimate.
Undertaking and managing the maintenance of corporate systems access for all Finance Staff.

Continuous improvement
Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures.
Seeking feedback on the services provided, and continuously strive to improve the service provision.
Supporting the solutions to issues highlighted during internal or external audit, ensuring that you understand the guidance provided to promote embedding the lesson(s) learnt.
Fulfilling your area of responsibility
Management of team members, motivating and coaching to enable effective delivery.
Supporting individual’s personal development and careers, ensuring you and the team make time to develop themselves and their peers.
Being open to challenge and new ideas, sharing of knowledge and experience, encouraging others through building a supportive team environment
Ensuring you and the team are getting the basics right at the first attempt.
Supporting development and embedding the use of standardised processes to deliver a consistent output to customers.
Working within set parameters, dealing with, and taking decisions on day-to-day issues. Referring to senior staff or SMEs on matters of policy or novel, complex issues.

The successful candidate will have a valid SC Clearance. Please Note: This assignment sits inside IR35.

In brief this is a standard management accounting role:
Government experience essential – gov budgeting and finances experience
Day to day spend management and management accounts forecasting/budgeting
Desirable to be studying/part- qualified