Senior Technical Accountant

BBS Recruitment is currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Technical Accountant in a temp position for our client in Birkenhead.

This role will be a mixture of office based and hybrid work.

The Senior Technical Accountant will provide accurate statutory reporting, financial management information, monitoring of key financial assets and statutory returns.  This will require accurate and timely reporting of information, data interpretation and analytical review for finance and non-finance Officers and Members.

Role Specific Duties & Responsibilities a Senior Technical Accountant:

• The timely delivery to a high standard of specific statutory information for the annual statement of accounts, information and submission of data for key regulatory returns, information to external auditors, responding to external audit requests. Meeting statutory deadlines for the external auditor and government body requirements.

• To undertake analytical reviews, challenge and interpret information to ensure decisions are taken with full knowledge of the resource implications and the information is complete, evidence based and accurate.

• Support the interpretation and delivery of changes in statutory reporting requirements to finance and non-finance Officers.

• Ensure accurate and timely management of the Council’s assets to provide good financial resilience of the balance sheet, including identifying actions, monitoring of control accounts, ensuring timely completion of reconciliations.

• Support the Technical Accountant Manager in ensuring long-term financial sustainability of the Council’s assets through technical advice and analytical data.

• Support the production and changes to financial policies, and to oversee their proper application, including key components of the Council’s Constitution.

• Represent your manager as and when required at meetings and to display behaviour, skills and knowledge commensurate with the post.

• To support Officer training of both Finance and non-finance staff on technical accounting changes, changes to year-end closure or other statutory requirements.  Coaching of finance staff to ensure best practice is appropriately applied.

• Undertake projects to deliver improved reporting, to remove inefficiencies and underperformance and provide greater transparency for decision making.

• To undertake any other tasks or duties commensurate with the grade and role of the post as directed.

Other Requirements

Hours are 36 per week

You must have an existing DBS

2 Years References