This is a full time interim role and the position holder is responsible to the Finance Business Partner. This is a public sector job where you will be working for the council's customer and commercial department. The highlight of the role is as follows:

To lead, co-ordinate and be accountable for the provision of enabling, customer-focused accountancy and financial management services relating to the departments served by their finance teams.
To ensure that all estimates (revenue and capital) and accounts (revenue, capital and balance sheet) are accurate, timely, consistent with corporate financial policy, practice and guidance, best professional practice and all pertinent legislation and financial regulations.
To deputise for the Finance Business Partner as required, and provide high quality financial advice to managers whenever needed.Your principal responsibilities may include the following:

Lead, co-ordinate and be accountable for budget monitoring of revenue capital and balance sheet accounts, and of all trading accounts and business plans that relate to the departments for which the service team is responsible.
Undertake specialist project work of a complex nature, preparing reports, representing accountancy services on working groups including some external groups and providing financial management and related expertise as and when required.
Lead, co-ordinate and be accountable for the preparation of revenue and capital estimates (including trading), budget profiling, and scales of charges for the departments for which the Principal Accountant's service team is responsible.
Manage the process for finding savings in the departments supported by the finance team, taking responsibility for managing, monitoring and keeping up to date a savings tracker in a corporate format, working with the service departments and the finance team in order to do so.
Provide professional advice, support and challenge to budget holders, senior managers, chief officers and members through quality financial information and provide effective solutions to ensure value for money is obtained.
Accountability for ensuring that the team meets all statutory requirements for information, adheres to all Council guidelines and timescales for responses to information requests and complaints, provides information to auditors (external and internal) in accordance with their requests and timescales, that all information required for grant claims is provided in time to enable the Council to claim the maximum to which it is legitimately entitled.

Connect2Staff/Connect2Kent, part of Commercial Services Trading/Kent Ltd, is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business and positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates