Summary: The Assistant Principal Officer role at EANI focuses on managing the Corporate and Capital Accounting Service, ensuring compliance with capital budget and accounting reporting requirements. This position involves collaboration with various teams and external parties to optimize financial reporting and deliver efficient services. The role is remote with occasional travel to offices for meetings. It is a key position that contributes to the overall financial governance and compliance of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the finance support for elements of the capital budget, overseeing engagement with capital budget holders.
• Key role in yearend capital budget and accounting procedures, liaising across teams to meet deadlines.
• Contribute to resource management within the capital team.
• Support the Functional Lead in delivering service requirements, including finance support for the capital budget and annual accounts process.
• Manage capital budget and yearend processes assigned by the functional lead, maximizing efficiency.
• Assist in overseeing workload distribution and ensuring responsibilities are delivered within statutory requirements.
• Share responsibility for developing strategies and initiatives for continuous service improvement.
• Ensure development and leadership of effective systems and procedures for customer-oriented service.
• Resolve service issues and queries through analysis and investigation, escalating as necessary.
• Continuously monitor performance through reports and address areas of concern with the Functional Lead.
• Maintain clear audit trails and action lessons learned.
• Lead and contribute to continuous improvement projects with a focus on digital approaches.

Key Skills:

• Part qualified accountant with membership in one of the five CCAB bodies or equivalent.
• Proven ability to achieve targets in a demanding environment against challenging deadlines.
• Experience delivering high-quality service to users.
• Experience in managing finance policy, financial planning, capital budget control, and providing advice to budget holders.
• Experience in maintaining and developing Fixed Asset Registers.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Belfast

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Finance