We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in London to assist with the appointment of a Finance Manager, on a 5-month contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £548.50 - £693.98 per Day

Responsibilities:

• To support the Principal Accountant to undertake an annual budget review exercises to develop the next financial years budget, and to inform the medium term financial planning strategy.
• To assist with detailed technical analysis of funding announcements and changes and maintain financial models to assess their impact on the Councils overall funding, developing models further as required.
  
• To support the production of the annual revenue budget for the authority in conjunction with service areas, including the statutory requirement for setting council tax and the production of all require reports for CMT and members
  
• To take responsibility as directed for specific aspects of accounting for the Collection Fund. Assist with modelling of the council tax base, monitoring and impact of CTB localisation, retention of NNDR, New Homes Bonus and any other related legislation
  
• To assist with the analysis of the impact on Council Tax levels of spending plans, including comparisons against other authorities, as required.

Qualifications:

• 3 GCSE passes including Maths & English; or vocational equivalent.
• AAT fully qualified or equivalent and / or experience requirements as set out below.

Experience:

• 2 years local government finance experience
• Experience of using based financial systems within a large complex organisation.

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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