Accounts Assistant

Adecco are pleased to be recruiting for an Assistant Accountant to join Thames Valley Police at their Kidlington HQ, North.

The pay is 20.07 per hour, working full time at 37 hours a week. It is a Monday - Friday role working 08:40am to 17:00pm with a 45 minute lunch break.

This would be a temporary role, initially until November 2025.

The overall purpose of the role is to: Support the force in delivering strategic priorities by ensuring accurate financial management of force budgets, working with key stakeholder within the force, to ensure financial reporting and forecasting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Finance Business Partners/Corporate Accountants to develop and deliver an efficient and effective financial management service that is aligned to the strategic priorities of TVP, continually striving to improve through reflective practice and lessons learnt.
• Pivotal in the production of the Force MTFP and MTCP and annual budget by providing information and analysis on BAU budgets, bids, and offering recommendations for budget modifications and alternative options, thereby facilitating informed decision-making.
• Enable a successful financial performance monitoring process by identifying and extracting data from source systems, validating / reconciling the data, evaluating predicted expenditure levels, identify exceptions and providing feedback to Accounts and Business stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.
• Responsible for monthly preparation of financial analyses and costings for both internal and external purposes, offering feedback to stakeholders as necessary to support crucial decision making. Assume full responsibility for completing and providing analyses, as well as providing expert advice on matters pertaining to legislative, professional, or force-related financial regulations.
• Manage and maintain financial records in strict accordance with audit requirements while ensuring full compliance with legislation, accounting standards, and force regulations at all times.
• Accountable for managing and maintaining accurate information and accounting records. Ensure timely processing of journals, budget virements, requisitions and invoices according to Forces financial regulations. Uphold evidential standards to support the year-end audit.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Fully AAT Qualified. Attained or willing to work towards achieving.
• Proven practical and technical post qualification experience in a finance environment.
• High level of computer literacy; especially, MS office applications, Excel and databases.
• Proven ability to produce and accurately manipulate, interpret and analyse highly complex financial data to produce insightful information to assist decision making and performance management across the force.
• Proven ability as a good communicator who can clearly deliver financial information (verbal and written).
• Proven ability to work as a team member and independently.
• Experience of working in a large organisation and knowledge of the public sector would be an advantage.

If you have the skills for this role, please apply. If your CV is shortlisted an Adecco Consultant will be in touch.

Please note: you must have lived in the UK for at least the last 5 years in order to apply for this role. This is due to Police Criteria.

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