Management Accountant

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Management Accountant for an initial 3 month contract with an option to extend on a rate of £350-£450/Day Inside IR35.

• Support the annual planning round and quarterly forecasting processes, reporting financial outputs and providing financial review, analysis and insight to the Finance Directorate and senior management.
• Support introduction of new Integrated Planning approach to planning and forecasting.
• Develop a long-term strategic financial model to enable the organisation to meet its strategic objectives while maintaining financial sustainability.
• Produce and continuously develop monthly Management Accounts report pack, reporting key financial performance information and metrics.
• Prepare reports and updates on financial topics for senior managers in the Finance Directorate and for presentation at committees.
• Lead the annual submission of the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) return, ensuring outputs are robust and understood.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis for the Finance Directorate including scenario modelling and measuring financial impact of decisions and outcomes.
• Management of reporting and analysis team.

• Be a CCAB professionally qualified accountant with a minimum of five years post-qualified experience.
• Have a well-developed ability to interpret data and to generate insight and then communicate this in a well-articulated written report.
• Have the ability to manage workload of a small team ensuring work is coordinated and reporting deadlines are met.
• Possess an ability to consistently work to deadlines without sacrificing quality.
• Have an ability to work under their own initiative with little supervision and operate effectively as a team member in a large team.
• Possess excellent numeracy, financial awareness and data analysis/visualisation skills, keeping up to date with reporting best practise.
• Be skilled in presenting financial information to non-financial members of staff.
• Specific experience and knowledge of the sector would be an advantage.

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