What’s involved with this role: Interim Finance Analyst - HRAReference no: Brent 5259169Pay Rate: £22.27 per hour PAYE36 Monday – Friday, normal working hoursThis opening assignment is for 3 monthsCity: WEMBLEY, LONDONKey Responsibilities: *Providing financial support to budget managers, presenting information on various financial matters

*Supporting the monthly budget monitoring and financial forecasting, including variance analysis

*Assisting in the submission of and understanding of various statutory and benchmarking returns

*Reviewing benchmarking information and supporting the service with identifying action plans for efficiencies and savings

*Supporting the HRA Senior Finance Analyst with budget modelling to determine financial impact of future service demands, changes in legislation and other factors determining resource requirements

*Supporting the delivery of various projects with financial implications and considerations

*Supporting services in identification of funding sources for projects and preparation of bidding documentation

*Supporting the annual closure of the accounts and ensuring statutory deadlines are met

*Assisting with reviewing the viability and value for money of various development schemes

*Maintaining awareness of the wider housing political and economic climate including assumptions around costs, market conditions, alternative/additional forms of financing and how these can be used to maximise housing supply

Key requirements: *AAT qualified, part qualified CCAB or CII ongoing study OR equivalent experience

*Knowledge of Oracle Financials reporting Business Objects and ADI

*Knowledge of accounting principals, policies and practices

*Knowledge of financial accounting and control

*Knowledge of local government funding arrangements

*Knowledge of statutory and regulatory reporting requirements in banking

*Knowledge of capital accounting and regulation funding

*A working knowledge of project management methodology

*Knowledge of banking rules and regulations

*Sound understanding of income tax issues

*Experience in investigating changes to accounting rules and areas of potential breach, proposing and implementing viable solutions.

*Experience in producing briefings and reports on specific issues for senior managers. Using information to support arguments and recommendations and able to present complex information verbally as well as in written form. Can produce presentations on specific issues and deliver them to managers and other finance staff

*Experience in identifying major issues and proposing solutions

*Experience with working with managers to identify potential corrective action in response to significant variances, and to develop appropriate action plans.

*Experience of providing advice and support to council service departments whilst at the same time monitoring financial activities and standing on behalf of the Operational Director of Finance.

*Experience of using banking systems

*Experience in local government across both the Housing General Fund and HRA

*Experience in capital year-end

*Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). 

*Good organisational skills and ability to get staff from across the organisation to provide information promptly

*Strong data analysis skills

*Ability to produce written reports collating financial information from across the organisation

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, orwho can commute easily to the place of work.  It will help your application if your CV states,  in broad terms,  where you reside – there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us directly via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles."XRPlease note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please