Your new role
Reporting into the Finance Transition Manager, you will be working for a public sector organisation helping the finance team with transition and transformation.

Assistant Finance Transition Manager - 2 year FTC
Salary - £38,000 - £41,000 (depending on experience)
Working Pattern - Hybrid - 2 days in the office; 3 from home
Offices in Southbank, London

• Support finance mobilisation and transition activity, ensuring all documentation, trackers and governance materials are completed, accurate and kept up to date.
• Act as finance workstream support, coordinating actions, maintaining trackers and preparing agendas for key finance meetings.
• Support the set-up and assurance of banking arrangements, including accounts, cash collection, payment methods and card services.
• Liaise with incoming operational entities and third-party providers to ensure financial accounts, agreements and processes are established ahead of transfer.
• Support the transfer and set-up of statutory registrations and compliance-related requirements.
• Review and document finance teams, systems and processes to identify risks, gaps and mitigation actions pre- and post-transfer.
• Act as a primary point of contact for finance teams following transfer, providing guidance, resolving queries and supporting a smooth transition.
• Support the adoption of centralised finance processes and ways of working, including reporting, cashflow, intercompany activity and compliance requirements.
• Assist with the design and delivery of finance process training and disacknowledges activities.
• Act as a key liaison between operational teams, central finance and external providers.
• Undertake ad-hoc projects and tasks in line with business and programme needs.

Essential Experience & Skills

• AAT qualified, part-qualified ACCA, CIMA or ACA, qualified by experience, or equivalent.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with colleagues at all levels, including senior stakeholders, both internally and externally.
• Experience working across multiple finance disciplines, such as cashflow forecasting, management accounting, VAT and intercompany transactions.
• Highly organised and proactive, with a strong ability to follow up on actions and deliver work to agreed deadlines.
• Strong immunocompetent and hyperrecruitment skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.

Desirable

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of government accounting and relevant financial governance frameworks.
• Experience working in a project or change-driven environment

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