Technical Accountant Closedown Review (REMOTE) needed in Bromsgrove, £600 per day - Reference: RQ1767504

 Fully Remote

• Existing revenue closedown processes and procedures
• Existing capital closedown processes and procedures
• Overall ownership and leadership of the closedown process
• Roles, responsibilities and accountability across the finance team
• Previous years' performance in delivering final accounts within statutory deadlines
• Closedown timetables and allocation of workload
• Technical accounting capability and capacity within the team
• Closedown team structure, knowledge and experience
• Finance system and technical issues impacting accounts production
• Quality, sign-off procedures and consistency of working papers
• Filing structures and document management arrangements
• Maintenance of key control accounts and balance sheet reconciliations throughout the financial year
• Capital accounting processes and maintenance of the Fixed Asset Register
• Lessons learned from previous closedowns both internally and across the wider local government sector
• Issues identified by Internal Audit and External Audit
• Findings arising from the independent review of Bromsgrove District Council's 2025/26 unaudited Statement of Accounts
• Processes used to extract financial information from the finance system for accounts production
• Data quality, system access and availability of information
• Spreadsheet controls and master workbook version control
• Identification and treatment of prior year adjustments
• Hard close procedures and controls over general ledger amendments
• Audit trails for journals and late adjustments
• Year-end accruals processes
• Accounting treatment and coding of grants
• Review and clearance of historic commitments
• Budget monitoring arrangements, virements, approvals and audit trails
• Timely completion of asset valuations and revaluations
• Pension accounting arrangements and timeliness of actuarial information
• Timely receipt of third-party information required for accounts production
• Governance and frequency of closedown meetings
• Compliance with the CIPFA Code of Practice
• Completion and quality assurance of the CIPFA Disclosure Checklist
• Opportunities to streamline and modernise accounts production
• Strengthening balance sheet assurance arrangements
• Improving preparedness for external audit
• Management oversight, review and assurance processes

This is working Full time hours on a temporary contract basis

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to [email protected] quoting the reference number.

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