Our Client in the Educational sector seeks a Senior Finance Officer to join their team on a permanent basis. The Senior Finance Officer would require a strong background within budgeting and excellent attention to detail.

Duties of the Senior Finance Officer include:

• Prepare budget templates based on established guidelines
• Coordinate budget schedule and review budgets received.
• Enter individual budgets into master budget and test for reasonableness
• Import budgets into accounting system
• Assist with annual budget preparation
• Provide mid-year budget projections.
• Monitor monthly reports for budget to actual variances
• Ensure all expenses are within the assigned budgets
• Prepare and reconcile bank statements

• Update contracts and liaising with suppliers
• Maintain and reconcile general ledger
• Perform special projects as assigned
• Review internal controls, implement and/or update policies and procedures

Requirements for the Senior Finance Officer include:

• Minimum three years accounting experience with a focus on complex spreadsheet tasks using all aspects of excel including functions, charts, pivot tables and large workbooks with complex calculations
• Strong analytical ability, including the ability to quickly and effectively analyse, compare, and interpret data
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines
• Demonstrated expertise with computerized accounting systems Sage, Excel and Access
• Commitment to ensuring financial integrity, and ability to handle highly confidential information with discretion
• Strong communicator

Benefits include, pension, generous annual leave entitlement, cycle to work, employee assistance programme, medical cash plan.