Finance Assistant - London (Public Sector)

Seeking a Finance Assistant for a 5-month contract for a public sector organisation. In this role, you will need to have efficient and effective management and operation experience of the day-to-day basis; and be capable of working to tight deadlines and able to communicate with a variety of stakeholders including customers and internal staff across the organisation.

Responsibilities:

• To support the integration of activity and other performance data with financial reporting for agreed areas of responsibility
• Update, maintain, organise, gather, and analyse information to predict/meet future organisational and team needs by identifying best professional practice.
• Monitor and tracking risks and issues tracking mechanism and its proactive resolution and escalation processes
• Contribute to the information management of performance, taking a lead for specific Projects
• Provides relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on financial, functional and information matters.
• Work with members of the team and key stakeholder to investigate the causes of any variance from plan/delivery targets and contribute to the implementation of solutions
• Support with internal and external audit requirements
• Monitor budgets, including budget holders' meetings in accordance with finance timetable

Please quote job ref JSM180659 when applying for this role