The public sector client is looking to recruit a Lead Finance Partner/Accountant for a 12 month temporary contract, which enables you to work remotely.

Experience Required: 
Proven experience of working and leading colleagues in a finance partnering or management accounting role involving budgeting, reporting and forecasting.
Analysis, reporting and managing team responsible for financial transactions and scenarios, including accruals, prepayments, revenue, capital, income and expenditure.
Creating and presenting financial reports to a wide range of stakeholders.
Experience of preparing and delivering month end, year-end, audit and statutory reports.
Good communicator and leader, with the ability to use a variety of communication tools to provide guidance, information and insight to help improve financial decision making.
Ability to process and analyse financial and non-financial information and interpret financial performance such as identifying and explaining variance analysis.
Experience of partnership working with diverse colleagues to generate, analyse and advise on financial concepts, information and processes, identify the bigger picture, influence decisions and improve financial outcomes.

Desirable:

Experience of working (and leading would be preferred) in a finance partner team (preferably within an information or digital technology organisation).
Strong IT skills (excel, word, powerpoint).
Knowledge of fundamental VAT rules.
Knowledge of government accounting and IFRS standards.

Your duties will include; 

Leading a small team of finance partners to deliver a full range of finance partner support to a portfolio of budget holders and service/product delivery managers operating in a fast-paced, information and technology driven environment.
Ensuring robust and accurate financial information that adheres to the regular financial cycle of processing and reporting including month end forecasts and annual budgets.
Supporting and advising budget holders on how to allocate risk appropriately and drive quality, efficiency and value for money.
Transaction analysis, costing and pricing modelling and checking, analysing and reporting variances including actuals v budgets and forecasts, scenario planning.
Ability to present, interpret and explain complex and technical financial information and concepts in a clear and concise format, tailoring for finance and non-finance audiences.
Ability to work at different levels (high level overview to detailed) to provide effective input and challenge to budgeting, forecasting and reporting activity.
Ensuring compliance with corporate governance, financial standards and audit requirements.

The successful candidate will have a valid DBS or be willing to apply for one on CV submission or when a job offer has been made and accepted.

Please Note: This assignment sits inside IR35.

About the Rates of Pay:  Please note: The higher pay rate advertised in our job advert/s will always be the highest Ltd or Umbrella Company pay rate that the client is willing to pay up to and the lower pay rate advertised in our job advert/s will always be the highest PAYE pay rate, that the client is willing to pay up to, unless otherwise specified. If the PAYE rate is not indicated in the job advert then please contact us for confirmation of the PAYE daily pay rate.