Financial Information Officer

Description:

Our Accountancy Division provides a range of services with the aim of providing strategic financial advice, securing the stewardship of assets, supporting effective decision making and enabling good financial management.

The post sits in part of a friendly and approachable team within the Decision Making Support Unit.

Main Responsibilities

The main responsibilities for this role will be:

• Preparing budget estimates (using simple tools, e.g. salary modeller) to support Corporate Finance and Decision Making Support Partners.
• Assist in maintaining financial system processes, coding hierarchies and control arrangements to provide accurate budget records.
• Process accruals, prepayments, advances, transfers to/from reserves and provisions in the authority's financial system.
• Monitor the integrity of budget records to ensure accurate reporting of spending.