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Broxbourne

Private Client portfolio of 10 clients, providing support for small businesses. • Accountancy and Bookkeeping• Purchase and Sales Ledger• Petty Cash• Personal Tax Planning• Payroll and VAT returns • Final Account submission • Self-assessment• Corporation Tax

Newham Docside

The Guidhall , Cambridge City Council

Assist in the preparation of the multi-year financial plan and annual revenue budgets for Shared services (Planning, Building control, ICT, Audit, payroll and Legal services) as well as Accountancy, office accommodation in liaison with service managers, to ensure delivery of the council’s objectives. To guide, advise and support directors, heads of service and other service managers through the financial aspects of the service planning process and the preparation of annual revenue budgets.Develop business and financial planning processes and accompanying financial analysis and projections, ensuring at all times consistency with corporate financial processes.Liaise with client departments and partners in order to develop appropriate management and financial information systems to meet their requirements.Provide support and advice in the preparation, management, monitoring and reporting of annual revenue and capital budgets (Office Accommodation), in co-operation with service managers and other support staff, contributing to the development of financial management processes across the council.Provide appropriate financial advice and support to client departments, in line with their requirements and those of the Council, in relation to relevant new or proposed legislation or accounting arrangements and in relation to service proposals and developments. Contribute to the production of reports to officers and members of the City CouncilExperience of analysing and assessing complex technical and financial data and making recommendations for use of resource (future of Admin Buildings)Dealing with the closure of accounts and external audit queries.

North London Business Park , New Southgate

Preparation and publication of Schools Forum papers and organising termly Schools Forum meetings. Setting up LB Barnet School Funding system allocating school budget shares to individual schools.Attend SMT and present the High Needs budget position.Calculation of High Needs top-ups to schoolsDeputise for School Funding managerExternal audit queries.

Enfield, United Kingdom

Budget Setting - Timely completion of departmental budgets. Collation of savings targets and pressures based on an excel model. Maintain and update budget database and salary estimates. Budget profiling, Budget consultation, cash limit control and reconciliation. Budget Monitoring – Budget monitoring support to approximately 100 users at all levels of the authority. Review over 500 cost centres, BPC/SAP reconciliations, project carry forward, savings, income and salary monitors, challenge meetings with budget holders/ clients, earmark reserve accounting, attendance and presentation of results at senior level management meetings, consolidation of monthly cabinet text, trend analysis to substantiate projections (Graphs). Closure of service Budgets year-end – Allocation of key tasks to responsible officers, debtor accruals, credit accruals, payments in advance, receipts in advance, provisions, contingent assets and liabilities, balance sheet justifications, notes to the accounts, stocktake, project carry forwards, reconciliation of holding codes and feeder systems, capital and revenue outturn, audit queriesGrant Claims – Outer London Fund (OLF), Market Gardening, Retrofit project, Aqua fund, ESF, ERDF to name a few.Project Support – Financial implications, monitoring and High-level project support for Enfield major regeneration projects in excess of £100m over 4 years. These include Meridian Water, Ponders End, Electric Quarter, Broomfield House, Market Gardening, Forty Hall and Millfield TheatreProcurement support - Attendance at project briefings to identify appropriate budgets to procure, financial evaluation of bidding organisations (Equifax), ITT scoring of bidders, Delegated Authority reports (DAR) – financial implications – pre and post procurement.Management of Staff – 2 staff in Environment and Regeneration and 2 members of staff and apprentice within Community Housing.IT Skills – Excel, SAP, PowerPoint, Outlook, SAGE, ASH debtors, BPC

Enfield, United Kingdom

Day to day financial management of service departments including provision of high quality financial support and advice to Departmental Management Teams and Service Managers. Includes Environment Street Scene capital budget (approximately £20m) and the (PSE) Place Shaping Enterprise budget £50m.Variance analysis, identification of slippage, over and underspends in Regeneration and Place Shaping budgets. Taking an innovative approach to problem solving providing financial expertise and challenge Critically assessing the financial implications of new service developments and projects (South Mall Edmonton Project and The Crescent) Preparation of Business Plans – Includes Community growing places and Meanwhile project Key Role in development of Council wide financial strategies and procedures, in particular the preparation of the Council’s accounts, revenue and capital budgets and the Medium Term Financial Plan, and to contribute to the continuous improvement of the Council’s overall financial administration, management and performance.Identify and progress potential areas for additional income for the Place Shaping Department including external funding opportunities. Established a support and research service to clients on new legislation, accounting issues and other complex matters. Risk Management - Prompt and appropriate action to identify, minimise and control any potential material risks that may arise on health and safety and other management issues, and in financial matters.

Enfield, United Kingdom

Capital and revenue budget setting and monitoring (Waste services, Parking, Planning and development control). Income and expenditure profiles. Closure of accounts and cascading budgets, Grant claims audit queries – Transport for London (TfL), SRB and NRF. And attend TfL project board Rechargeable jobs reconciliation and managing S106 planning obligations.Compiling performance indicators for Street Lighting and Waste services, Cleaning and Catering Trading Accounts and fleet and depot recharges. Manage two members of staff off site.

Nlbp

Budget Setting, sound financial advice and effective proactive support to senior managers within the Customer Support Group.Preparation and presentation of monthly management accounts, reports and variance analysis to Senior Management team within the monthly deadlines.Facilitate training on budget and financial matters to both service managers and business support staff.Accurate analysis of transactions and compliance with best practice and statutory regulations.Completion and submission of returns and grant claims in line with specified deadlines and compilation of requisite supporting information for external inspection

Barnet

Preparing accurate budget monitoring statements, budget profiling, and monthly finance surgery to report on budget position for all Economic and Regeneration budgets. Staff Management of finance officer. Oversee team responsible for stores payment of accounts. Presentationsto large audiences, two-way communication. I.e. government departments, members and directors. Stakeholder Management and Partnership working with other professional including Legal, Architects and external contractors to support Barnet Leisure centres Involvement in best value review of Economic development and a member of the Best Value working group to co-ordinate the best value review Regular use of Excel, SAGE and lotus notes. Training clients on financial management systems. Prepare Tailor made reports for clients Oversee team responsible for stores payment of accounts.

Wood Green

Education Department - Reconciliation of Schools Imprest accounts, bank statements and cash flow statements. Finance officer for 15 primary schools and two secondary schools. Regular school visits to assist head teacher providing a flexible professional finance service to support schools priorities.Budget setting for individual schools, journals and grant claims and Statistical returns. Monitoring of schools budgets and other Education areas.Grant claims, authorisation of payments and income. Regular communication with school governors and head teachers. Grant claims and journals.Central Accountancy – Various reconciliations, statistical returns, suspense account clearance, payments of accounts authorisation.

Baker Street

Bookkeeping, PAYE and VAT returns and preparation of accounts from both complete and incomplete records including trial balance. Attending clients’ premises to maintain bookkeeping systems, petty Cash, purchase and sales daybook and banking.

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