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Are you eager to land a brand new role? Our client, a busy local authority in Oxford. Are looking for a Senior Financial Systems Accountant to join their organisation.

Job Role: Senior Financial Systems Accountant
Temporary or Permanent: Temp
Possible End Date: TBC
Number of Positions: 1
Location: Oxford
Office Based/Hybrid: TBC
Rate of Pay: £218
Pay Negotiable: Possibly 

Short Brief/Requirement:  
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Financial
Systems Accountant to join the Financial Systems & Support team within the organisation.

Purpose:

• You will lead the financial configuration and oversight of line of business finance systems, including system interfaces into the corporate finance, capital governance and contract systems.
• You will provide technical accounting advice and support to operational projects and teams in relation to implementations or developments, where there is a dependency on financial systems. 
• Where required you will work as part of a project team, working group, or independently to test, update and implement financial changes into finance systems.
• You will design, generate and maintain financial reports and dashboards to support system data management and compliance, performance monitoring, good financial management and data quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a source of expertise across corporate and local finance systems.
• Act as a central finance lead on all local system/s issues and attend relevant system user groups and change control sessions (internal/external) as required.
• Lead on the maintenance and development of configuration of the systems which are managed and controlled by central finance.
• Undertake project work on future development of the systems, where it relates to finance processes, alignment with regulations or finance data flows/integrations.
• Lead on the development of financial reports using both corporate and local systems data sets for budget monitoring, performance reporting, financial modelling and data quality.
• Provide finance support to major programmes and/or projects as required.
• Undertake data analysis - extraction, transformations, modelling, forecasting, analyse comparative data and draw conclusions based on evidence gathered.

Job Requirements:

• Previous experience working within a local authority or a similar organisation.
• At least 2 years experience within a Senior Financial Systems Accountant role or equivalent.
• CCAB Qualified with significant post qualification Finance / Accounting experience
• Extensive knowledge of local government and wider sector / external influences including political sensitivities.
• Experienced in working with Senior Managers with the professional knowledge and ability to influence decisions, address poor performance and identify opportunities and innovation through sound reasoning, risk assessment and a sound understanding of the organisational objectives over the short, medium and long term.

Please be advised that only candidates that have the specific skills and experiences required for this role will be shortlisted and submitted to our client for review. 

How to Apply:

If you are interested in applying, please press the button below, send your CV to tareeq.smith@temptingrecruitment.co.uk or contact Tareeq on 020 3854 4911 to discuss further.

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