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Temporary Financial Systems Accountant Reference no: Teignbridge 5232527 Pay Rate: up to £18.85 per hour PAYE depending on experience 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 6 months City: NEWTON ABBOT Hybrid working - 2 days in the office and 3 days at home This is an exciting opportunity for you to join the team to provide a complete financial service. This includes responsibility for accurate recording and reporting of all financial matters relating to the Authority for those services designated to this post. Someone with local government finance experience that can assist in the move to new financial and income management systems, who is able to prepare and manage budgets, and promote excellence in corporate financial systems NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via [email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF 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 this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining 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.
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.

Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Qualifications:

• Will need AAT or a professional accountancy qualification and relevant post qualification experience working within an accountancy/finance office.

Knowledge:

• Will have knowledge and sound understanding of accounting principles and practices

Experience:

• Will have experience of working with Advanced Financials and Capita Pay360 systems.
• Will have experience of budget setting, budget monitoring and budget forecasting.
• Experience of working within the Local government Sector
• Experience of change and project management

Skills & Abilities:

• The skills and experience in Statement of Accounts production
• Will have good written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. You can explain just about anything to anyone including financial information to non-finance staff.
• Will have supervisory skills and the ability to be a member of and contribute to the work of a team.
• Will have the ability to organise and prioritise workloads to achieve key outputs, with accuracy, within the deadlines set.
• Will have the ability to amend and adapt financial systems and appropriate computing skills to extract, manipulate and report financial information. An extensive working knowledge of excel is essential.

ALD If you would prefer to send a CV straight to us rather than by way of an on-line application, you are very welcome to do so via [email protected] but please quote both the job reference and job title exactly as they appear below:

Job Ref: Teignbridge 5232527

Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates. We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed. Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs. 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.