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Pay Rate: 350 per day - Umbrella PAYE (Negotiable)
Duration: 6 months
Location: Harrow Hub (Hybrid working)
Pertemps Recruitment, in partnership with the London Borough of Harrow, is seeking a proactive and detail oriented Senior Finance Officer to join the Finance team. This role will play a key part in managing budgets, delivering accurate financial reporting, and supporting strategic decision making across a range of services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare and monitor monthly revenue budgets for services including Corporate Estates, Facilities Management, Catering, Planning, and Building Control.
- Produce accurate and insightful financial reports to ensure high profile budgets remain on track.
- Lead financial forecasting and cash flow planning to support strategic growth and sustainability.
- Oversee year end processes, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.
- Extract, analyse, and present financial data to drive informed, data led decisions.
- Contribute to transformation projects aimed at improving services and delivering value for money.
- Up to date knowledge of accounting practices, ideally within the public sector.
- Strong working knowledge of computerised financial systems, preferably SAP, alongside proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Clear understanding of the diverse communities and workforce within Harrow, and the implications for service delivery.
- Demonstrable experience in managing or performing key financial duties relevant to this role.
- Proven ability to work collaboratively and support colleagues in a team environment.
- Experience providing financial guidance and advice to non finance managers.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including familiarity with VLOOKUP and Pivot Tables.
For almost 60 years, Pertemps Recruitment Partnership have been the market leader in providing permanent and temporary staffing solutions and we are one of the most established players within the recruitment industry. The Sunday Times has listed us as one of the Best 100 Companies to work for 14 years running. We are not a big scary faceless company, quite the opposite: we strongly believe in the personal touch with everything we do. We are proud to be accredited 'investor in people' which is reflected across our business in length of service and career progression of our employees.
London Borough of Harrow is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, any your data protection rights, can be found by visiting (url removed)
