Accountant - Public Sector

Summary: The role of Senior Accountant involves managing accountancy tasks for finance system improvements within a leading scientific research provider. The position requires a qualified accountant to oversee the restructuring of financial accounts and ensure effective management of staff and financial processes. This is a 12-month contract based in Belfast, offering a dynamic work environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in enhancing financial operations and systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with accountancy-focused tasks for multiple finance systems improvement projects, in preparation for onboarding to a new finance and business management system.
• Re-structure and mapping of the organisations Chart of Accounts to match that of Account NI.
• Introduce and embed a No PO, No Pay policy.
• Reconciliations of all control accounts.
• Management and development where necessary of system interfaces (CORA, ISLAND, AFBI220, new PO requisition API).
• Manage the testing of new builds of CORA to ensure functionality of the Finance module.
• Liaise with the internal CORA admin team and external CORA supplier team to report and resolve functionality issues in relation with the Finance module.
• Lead, manage and motivate staff to ensure continuous improvement of the services they provide to the organisation.
• Ensure effective management of staff, including absence and performance management.

Key Skills:

• Have successfully passed the final professional examinations and be a full current member of one of the professional bodies.
• Have at least two year's practical experience, gained within the last five years, in one of the following: Financial Planning and Budgeting; Financial Accounting/Auditing, Financial Reporting and Costing or Development/Implementation of Financial Systems.
• Demonstrable excellent Excel skills, with practical experience of using VLOOKUPS and XLOOKUPS.

Salary (Rate): £27.00 Hourly

City: Belfast

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other