We're recruiting for a Senior Finance Officer, for one of our largest Government clients.
This role is a maternity cover contract until the end of March 2025 (Inside IR35 - Hybrid working).
The Senior Finance Officer will be working in a team delivering a high profile policy that will really make a change to the way the country operates!! As such, previous experience in Central Gov or the Civil Service is essential.
This is a £1 billion pound programme so experience of working on large government programmes would be a major advantage.
The Senior Finance Officer will work closely with stakeholders right across the organisation, as well as other government departments and local authorities based across the 4 nations of the United Kingdom.
Key Responsibilities:
- Improving financial management and governance
- Identifying Financial Risks and making sure they are mitigated
- Building and continually improving financial processes around Cash Flow / Income and Expenditure.
- Working as part of a great team to build and inform realistic and well-understood financial forecasts.
- Provide meaningful and accurate financial reporting, analysis and insights to help colleagues make well-informed decisions.
- Work with colleagues internally and externally to resolve issues relating to budgets, purchase orders and invoices.
- Provide good financial and financial risk management
- Purchase-to-pay process, working with colleagues from finance and commercial functions;
- Creating, tracking, managing and closing Purchase Orders.
- Working with budget holders and other colleagues to deal with the receipt and the release of payments to third party suppliers.
- Communicating with budget holders and third-party suppliers around payment schedules, escalating where appropriate.
- Cross-charging to other government departments or business areas, working with colleagues from the finance functions
- Build and continually improve financial reports, performance dashboards and scorecards.
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