Assistant Financial Accountant - SC

Job Title: Assistant Financial Accountant - SC
Location: Hybrid/Fareham (3 days/week on site)
Contract Duration: 6 Months
Daily Rate: £574/day (Umbrella - Maximum)
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Security Clearance: SC & Sole Uk national

The Role:

• Supports the preparation of audited annual financial statements and external returns, acting as a key coordination point for NAO and other audit bodies.
• Manages audit liaison activities by maintaining robust reconciliations, preparing audit evidence packs, and providing clear explanations and supporting data for sample requests.
• Reviews, analyses, and interprets financial data to provide insight to managers, Finance Leadership, and wider finance colleagues, ensuring accuracy of accounts inputs and monthly reconciliations.
• Provides financial accounting and tax guidance across the organisation, escalating complex issues and engaging with Technical Accounting and Tax Centres of Excellence where required.
• Ensures compliance with accounting standards, supports implementation of new rules, and works with the business to collate information for VAT returns, losses, special payments, and control

Essential:

• Qualified or working towards qualification with CCAB or CIMA.
• Good understanding of financial accounting and statutory accounts
• Understanding of up-to-date financial reporting requirements (IFRS, FReM)
• Competent with Microsoft Excel
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish and maintain good working relationships internally
• Personal resilience in dealing with non-negotiable timescales and conflicting priorities

A career path that can demonstrate effective delivery of:

• Financial accounting and reporting
• Preparation of statutory accounts
• Financial governance (including VAT compliance)
• Delivering against deadlines

Desirable:

• Awareness of government accounting and Managing Public Money
• Experience of using Oracle Financial Cloud software

Security Clearance: SC clearance + Sole UK national

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on .

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

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