Accountant - Public Sector

Summary: The Senior Accountant role is a 12-month contract position based in Belfast, focusing on improving finance systems for a leading provider of scientific research services to government bodies. The position requires a skilled accountant to manage various accountancy tasks, including restructuring the Chart of Accounts and implementing financial policies. The role also involves staff management and ensuring the functionality of financial systems. Candidates must be qualified accountants with relevant experience and strong Excel skills.

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