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We have an exciting opportunity to join our Finance and Business Team as a Financial Accounting Manager. Reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting and Accounts, this role is part of a wider Finance team supporting the Deputy Chief Finance Officer and the Finance Senior Leadership team.
As the Financial Accounting Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that HM Land Registrys daily general and project ledger financial transactions are recorded in an accurate and timely way to stakeholders, whilst also ensuring compliance with all statutory, Cabinet Office and HM Treasury reporting requirements.
Job description
You will be accountable for providing accurate, relevant and timely information which meets decision making needs, working as part of a team, sharing experience and knowledge to improve team efficiency and develop skills and knowledge.
You will be the expert in ensuring effective procedures and policies are in place, as well as working with your team to review processes and implement continuous improvement.
Main duties:
- Day-to-day management of the General Ledger including the Fixed Asset register, lease accounting under IFRS16, journals, accruals, prepayments and associated monthly reconciliations.
- Day-to-day management, in conjunction with the Fusion Team, of the Projects Ledger including project set-up, administration, capitalisation, and other associated procedures and controls.
- Preparation of the quarterly VAT returns to HM Revenue and Customs.
- Lead the month and year-end closedown procedures for the Financial Accounting and Financial Reporting teams, including resolution of variances in a timely manner.
- Ensure performance levels are maintained by monitoring and acting on key performance metrics whilst contributing and promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
- Identification of key risks within your areas of responsibility, ensuring appropriate mitigations are in place, operating effectively and communicated with key stakeholders.
- Providing technical advice to the business on International Accounting Standards, the Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM), Consolidated Budgeting Guidance (CBG) and Managing Public Money (MPM).
- Develop and update guidance and training packages to upskill others, whilst also ensuring that processes and procedures comply with best practice. This includes ensuring that process and procedure documentation is reviewed and maintained to reflect improvements and compliance with best practice.
- Support to the Financial Reporting Team as required plus other ad-hoc duties.
Person specification
The successful candidate for this role will hold or be actively working towards a Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB or CIMA.
You will have recent hands-on experience of financial accounts closedown and production, have strong Excel skills and be confident and experienced in building and maintaining strong working relationships within teams and wider businesses.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB or CIMA OR actively working toward qualification with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent.
Benefits
£10,669 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
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#WeAreHMLR
At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.
We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.
- We have integrity we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
- We drive innovation we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
- We are professional we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
- We give assurance we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.
You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.
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Selection process details
To apply, you will need to enter your career history into the CV section of the online application form, complete a technical skills section and a Personal Statement.
In the Technical skills section please provide details of how you meet the following essential technical skills criteria (in no more than 250 words):
- Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB or CIMA OR actively working toward qualification with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent.
The Personal Statement section (in no more than 750 words) must be used to provide details of how you meet the essential experience criteria listed below:
- Recent hands-on experience of financial accounts closedown and production.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships within team and wider business.
In the event of a high volume of applications, a pre-sift will be carried out on the lead criteria, being:
- Recent hands – on experience of financial accounts closedown and production
and only those applications that pass the pre-sift will be fully sifted.
Please review your application form before clicking submit once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.
If you are successful at the sift stage you will be invited to attend a blended interview, which will be carried out via MS Teams. Interviews will be held 28th August – 4th September 2023 inclusively.
The blended interview will test the behaviours listed in the candidate pack, as well as the strengths associated with the role and may include a pre-prepared presentation.
We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we dont advertise which strengths are being tested. The best way to prepare for strength questions is to reflect on what you identify as your own personal strengths, and your preferred ways of working: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles
Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.
If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Edward Dutton
- Email : edward.dutton@landregistry.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk
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