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Our client is a large local government organisation and looking for an experienced Finance Analyst to join their team on a permanent basis
You will
- Undertaking Strategic Service Reviews and business intelligence gathering to inform budget setting discussions and prioritisation of resource allocations
- Preparation of specific strategic financial reports held within the Income and Expenditure and Balance Sheet accounts to Budget Holders and Stakeholders
- Researching of specialist areas to ensure knowledge base is kept up to date and customers and stakeholders are suitably informed and updated
- Undertaking due diligence checks to ensure new undertakings can enable the protection of public investment
- Forecasting and modelling of financial and related metric data to promote effective decision making and ensure efficient and effective use of resources
- Critically examining performance management information to ensure information reported is accurate and reliable and correctly links financial with service performance information
- Assisting with the development of the business planning process for client departments to ensure plans contains robust and accurate historic and forecast financial information
- Undertaking benchmarking/cost driver analysis to ensure council services and stakeholders are aware of the relative current and future position of their services
- Undertaking company assessments to corporate standards to ensure sound investment decisions can be made in relation to the council's procurement arrangements
- Developing outline and detailed business cases for major capital schemes of client departments to ensure schemes are put forward for approval in accordance with corporate procedures and standards
- Supporting the financial aspects of specific project work in client departments to ensure the Finance Service is the first point of contact in all new projects undertaken
- Undertaking investment and options appraisals to ensure strategic decisions can be made in the light of key financial analysis and information
- Advising and supporting elected members to enable them to fulfil their roles fully with regards to financial stewardship and in particular financial reporting and governance.
