Job Ref: 214608717

Date: 2021-09-08 12:44:20

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Management Accountant
Milton Keynes
Contract
£400 per day
Our client is looking for a highly experienced local authority Management Accountant.
Service lead accountant for either Children’s services or Adult Social Care.
Responsibility for the quality and accuracy of the forecast outturn by challenging managers of complex or volatile budgets to ensure forecasts are robust, the link to the MTFP is understood and support managers to develop mitigating actions to manage any overspends. Develop models to assist with forecast challenge such as social care placement tracking and projections. Prepare service and board reports (or presentations / dashboards where appropriate).
Provide advice and challenge to service managers and heads of service during the MTFP process, supporting with business cases for pressures and savings proposals and undertaking financial modelling of demand budgets and for contractual inflation. Identify areas for possible savings.
Ensure compliance of services with Financial Regulations (scheme of delegation, procurement thresholds etc.) and look to improve how we share information with and train service managers on good financial management (such as the content and accessibility of the finance intranet site). Provide positive assurance looking to promptly evidence or escalate issues.
Provide advice and challenge to project boards, on financial and project governance matters including financial modelling, undertake company financial evaluations ahead of contract award and preparation of all reports and dashboards.
Ensure accurate submission of grant returns and claims prepared by the team, ensuring evidence and working papers are accurate and clear. Completion of complex service returns such as the RO, S251 and ASC FR and review of benchmarking outputs to investigate where we are an outlier and identify areas of improvement.
Preparation of year-end adjustments, ensuring all entries into the accounts and supporting working papers are accurate and evidenced. Liaison and working with internal and external audit.
Essential Requirements (key skills & qualifications)
Qualified accountant (CCAB) or in final year (with a commitment to finish) and evidence of appropriate CPD.
Excellent spreadsheet skills and ability to undertake complex financial modelling using a different data sets and systems (financial, case management etc.).
Experience of a budget planning cycle, ensuring compliance with governance processes and analysing and reporting on financial issues.
Be able to explain complicated and technical information in a manner that can be understood by others with different levels of knowledge on the subject using multiple tools; written (preparation of presentations and report writing including cabinet papers), spreadsheets (financial modelling) and deliver presentations and training.
Inquisitive and challenging with the ability to apply innovative and creative thinking to service challenges within a fast-paced environment.
PLEASE only apply if you have the necessary skills, experience and expertise. The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Colbern Limited along with our clients are an equal opportunities employer

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