Senior Technical Accountant in UK

Senior Technical Accountant

Pay Rate: £43 - £53 per hour

Contract : Minimum 3-6 Months with a view to being extended

Work Schedule : Full time, Monday – Friday.

Hybrid Working

Spencer Clarke Group is working with a local authority in the North West to aid in the recruitment of a Senior Technical Accountant.

Role Brief: The Senior Technical Accountant will provide accurate statutory reporting, financial management information, monitoring of key financial assets and statutory returns. This will require accurate and timely reporting of information, data interpretation and analytical review to finance and non-finance Officers and Members

What we’re looking for:

- A recognised professional/technical accountancy qualification/part qualification (e.g. CIPFA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA ) or equivalent.

- Significant experience of working in a financial monitoring role, with a focus on capital accounting.

Key Responsibilities:

- The timely delivery to a high standard of specific statutory information for the annual statement of accounts, information and submission of data for key regulatory returns, information to external auditors, responding to external audit requests. Meeting statutory deadlines for the external auditor and government body requirements.

- Ensure accurate and timely management of the Council’s assets to provide good financial resilience of the balance sheet, including identifying actions, monitoring of control accounts, ensuring timely completion of reconciliations.

Spencer Clarke Group specialise in both permanent & temporary roles within Accountancy & Finance, if you are a candidate looking for a new role, please give the office a call and speak to our award-winning consultants, who will be sure to find you the perfect role.

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