Assistant Accountant

Job Category : Financial
Location : ALEXANDRA HOUSE, London Borough of Haringey
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £241.22 per day

Role Purpose

⦁ To provide a high quality, financial administration function for the Capital & Major Projects team in the Finance Department
⦁ To assist the Principal Accountant in the preparation of information to support the year end accounts process.
⦁ To assist the Principal Accountant in the monthly budget monitoring process.
⦁ To assist in the provision of a customer focused financial support and advice to Council officers.
⦁ To assist the Principal Accountant in ensuring that the framework for financial reporting, budget setting, forecasting, control and management within the Council for capital budgets is robust.

Financial Administration

⦁ To assist in effective quality control and compliance checks of expenditure coded to capital budgets by highlighting inconsistencies and potential errors and pursuing their resolution.
⦁ Proactively identify posting errors and propose on-going remedial action.
⦁ To prepare and process financial accounting transactions such as journals, virements and commitment cleansing in a timely manner.
⦁ Prepare base data for responses to financial enquiries.
⦁ Be involved in reviewing and improving financial processes and systems to improve financial accounting at the council including development of computer based systems.
⦁ To provide reliable financial information and good quality analysis
⦁ To deliver training and support to budget holders and managers in relation to the capital internal order and coding arrangements.
⦁ Prepare financial information for the Principal Accountant to enable the accurate and timely preparation of grant claims and statistical returns from the Council’s core financial systems
⦁ Prepare financial information for the Principal Accountant to enable them to undertake more complex reconciliations.

Budget monitoring, Financial Accounting & Year End

⦁ Assist in the preparation of the monthly capital budget monitoring return.
⦁ Assist in preparing supporting working papers for year end.
⦁ To carry out a range of simple reconciliations throughout the year.

Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
⦁ Minimum of GCSE level Mathematics (or equivalent) plus demonstration of an aptitude for financial work
⦁ AAT qualified or working towards qualification or experience of working in a finance service in a large organisation
⦁ Excellent communication and analytical skills.
⦁ Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders.
⦁ Ability to exercise initiative and good judgement in delivering service and Council aims and objectives