About this Role:
To provide management information and financial analysis to enable evidenced based decision making in support of RoS business objectives and enable efficient and effective use of RoS resources through budgetary control.
Main duties:
•Produce monthly delegated budgeting reports on staffing and expenditure, ensuring quality and accuracy.
•Analyse the data produced and liaise with relevant areas to explain resource usage and understand drivers behind cost and performance variances.
•Produce monthly reports for RoS governance bodies including business and financial performance report.
•Ensure key messages from financial information are highlighted and clearly explained.
•Provide assistance to business areas so that they understand the financial impact of their projects and follow cost control procedures.
•Provide support in production of business cases, carrying out, analysis, appraisal and challenge to arrive at a robust end product.
•Carry out financial analysis as required to ensure effective use of resources for example for fee reviews and process costing
•Provide support to the Finance Modelling Team where required.
•Any other adhoc duties commensurate with the role
Technical / Experience
Partqualified / qualified CCAB (or CIMA) Accountant, AAT (or similar) qualified orqualified by experience.
Competent in the use of Windows based finance systems andMicrosoft office applications, as a minimum, have intermediate excel skills(pivot tables, lookups, conditional functions etc.).
Collaborating and Partnering
•Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, withthe ability to communicate the strategic implications of complex financialissues. Works collaboratively to ensure that RoS delivers its strategicoutcomes within the resources available.
Analysis and Making Effective decisions
•Stronganalytical skills - Ability to interpret and communicate complex financialinformation effectively to key stakeholders, including non-financeprofessionals.
Delivering a Quality Service
•Ability to work across teams, planning and drivingforward longer-term work whilst managing shorter term demands. Deliver todeadlines and deliver high quality outputs under pressure, whilst demonstratinga commercial, financial, and sustainable mind set to ensure all activities andservices deliver added value
•Adaptable and willing to review role and priorities tomeet the current and future needs of the organisation.