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Assistant Accountant

  • Location:

    Cwmbran

  • Job type:

    Temporary

  • Salary:

    £16.94 per hour

  • Contact:

    St David Recruitment Services

  • Contact email:

    info@stdavid-recruitment.co.uk

  • Contact phone:

    02920797920

  • Job ref:

    ST7560

  • Published:

    over 2 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2021-11-05

Assistant Accountant

Cwmbran

Temporary

Monday- Friday (37 hours)

£16.94 per hour

ST7560

 

Our client is looking for an Assistant Accountant to join them.

 

Job purpose:

To support the Senior Accountants and wider department in the provision of financial stewardship and business management support to efficiently and effectively deliver the OPCC’s priorities.

 

Job duties:

  • To provide resilience across the other Assistant Accountants’ portfolios, and work with the other Assistant Accountants to ensure that the priorities and demands of the team are timely and accurately delivered.

  • To deliver portfolio input into periodic medium term financial planning, and the maintenance of the budgetary control system.

  • Assist the Senior Accountants in the provision of financial support and guidance to Workstreams and Departments, and deliver periodic financial performance to facilitate tactical and strategic direction.

  • To assist with the delivery of training and familiarisation throughout the Force that promotes good financial management practices.

  • To assist with the delivery of training and familiarisation throughout the Force that promotes good financial management practices.

  • To assist in the production of the statutory financial statements in line with the CIPFA Code of Practice on Local Authority Accounting and International Financial Reporting Standards

  • To assist in the delivery of the annual budget setting process to ensure the annual budget is set in a timely and accurate manner.

  • To produce Statement of Accounts for bodies closely related to the OPCC in accordance with the Charity Accounts Statement of Recommended Practice.

  • To liaise with internal and external auditors to ensure systems and process changes are audit compliant and new recommendations are implemented within the appropriate timescales.