Finance Manager

at  NAViGO Health and Social Care CIC

Providing day to day routine support/advice to Budget Holders, including regular meetings which may include the discussion and resolution of complex and routine financial issues. Meetings can be in person or using Teams. Preparation of monthly system accruals and prepayments; calculation of estimated accruals; inputting corrective journals and production of the monthly budget monitoring report for their portfolio of cost centres, adhering to strict month end timetable. Reviewing budget monitoring data and identifying and explaining variances adhering to the monthly timetable and reporting to the Senior Management Accountant.
Compiling action plans agreed with budget holders to address variance and submitting these to Senior Management Accountant. Assisting in the development and improvement of the budget monitoring system; using a comprehensive knowledge of excel and report writing facility via Access Financials Monthly pay budget variance analysis to identify miscodes and changes in a timely manner. Liaising with HR colleagues where necessary. Supporting recruitment within budget portfolio by performing checks upon receipt of a vacancy notification and confirming such with budget holder in a timely manner.
Assisting the Senior Management Accountant in the setting of budgets in line with the organisations approved Budget Setting Policy, for which they are the nominated finance representative, including discussions and agreement with budget holders. Responsible for advising budget holders on the re-profiling of budgets within a cost centre: remaining strictly within a given budget envelope and submitting such realignments for approval by the Senior Management Accountant, as part of the annual Budget Process. Responsible for resolving any issues/pressures identified in accordance with policies and procedures: where this is not possible, to escalate the issue to the Senior Management Accountant. This will require the ability to explain complex financial issues; Complete various monthly reconciliations as required in accordance with the month end timetable.
Ensure all procedure notes are up to date within relevant work area. Regularly review work processes, identifying ways to improve effectiveness and efficiency. Undertake routine accounting tasks on the finance system, such as inputting journals, setting up ledger codes within agreed coding structure, ledger enquiries, running ad-hoc reports etc; Participate in and provide information for statutory statistical and financial returns as requested by the Senior Management Accountant; To provide training where necessary to a designated portfolio of budget holders for issues such as, budget holder responsibility, coding of invoices, utilising Access Financials dashboard, VAT basics etc; Be able to demonstrate own area of work to new finance staff and other colleagues Assist Senior Management Accountant in complex and confidential issues such as costing of restructures, service redesign or tendering for new areas of work; Required to have detailed knowledge and understanding of accounting policies and procedures of the organisation. Ad-hoc duties as required to meet the exigencies of the service

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