Client:

Castlefield Recruitment are currently working with a large public sector organisation in the North West, who are looking to recruit a Business Accountant on an Fixed Term basis for an initial 12 month period.

Duties:

• Prepare to receive and provide monthly financial performance for budget holders and divisional members of staff, ensuring that all reports are meaningful and produced in a timely fashion
• Ensure that the resources required to deliver the divisions service plans and targets are identified, costed and translated into budgets, that are realistic yet challenging and demonstrate improvements in efficiency
• Produce high quality monthly financial performance reports and complex calcualtions for budgets and costing. 
• Review the financial reporting needs on a regular basis and undertake work as necessary to meet new or changing information needs both internally and externally
• Responsible for the budget setting,  business planning and preparation of business cases  
• Ensure that proper financial controls are in line with governance, maintained and all financial procedure documentation is in place
• Provide financial support for non-clinical service agreements and ensure timely and accurate finance are undertaken in collaboration with other finance departments

Person:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to relay financial information to non-financial staff  
• Strong excel skills
• Working towards qualification
• Experience managing and driving forward teams