Interim Deputy Chief Accountant - local authority - MLC Partners : Job Details

Deputy Chief Accountant - London Borough Council

Circa £900 inside IR35

Hybrid working

Initial 3-6 month contract

• To act as the lead coordinator for the annual production of the Statement of Accounts.
• To ensures the accuracy, integrity, and compliance of financial records, provides strategic financial guidance.
• To manage day to day activity within the Chief Accountant’s team, including design and implementation of processes and procedures for other staff to follow.
• To maintain the integrity of the underpinning chart of accounts, balances and transactions to facilitate all aspects of statutory and management reporting.
• To provide high quality professional and technical advice to members, senior officers, service finance teams and the wider organisation on a broad range of financial accounting and reporting issues, ensuring compliance with CIPFA Codes of Practice (including Accounting and Service Expenditure Reporting) and Council financial regulations.
• Technical lead on liaising with external auditors and contribute to management comments on external audit recommendations and progress these to ensure implementation within agreed timeframes.
• To deputise for the Chief Accountant as may be reasonably required from time to time in relation to day-to-day financial reporting activities.