Job Description:

Job information Finance Operations Lead from the Company Public Sector Resourcing, this latest Finance Operations Lead job vacancy is located in the city Hybrid work in London located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Finance field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

Finance Operations Lead - Inside IR35

Contract Term: 4 months (possible extension)

Contracting Authority: Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)

Location: Hybrid working (3 days per week in London office and remaining 2 days WFH)

About the role:

ARIA is seeking an experienced finance leader to provide cover whilst we recruit for our Head of Finance Operations. This is ARIA's lead role in connecting the day-to-day financial management of ARIA with the tactical leadership required to support the organisation's current and future business model.

The role will also involve optimising project accounting systems and processes, to ensure they are agile and customer-centric to meet the varying needs of our Programme Directors and the funding they disseminate as part of their research programmes. You will also be the technical accounting expert ensuring accuracy in ARIA accounting and tax matters and compliance with all appropriate regulatory and governance standards, including fraud.

The successful candidate will have a proactive and solution-focussed outlook, as well as the ability and appetite to look further down ARIA's growth phase to ensure that finance systems, processes and other operational and tactical improvements scale to match the ambitions of the organisation. Working as part of a small team, this role reports into the Director of Finance and Accounts, and it is expected that the role holder will bring both the capability and the appetite to deputise into this position. With significant exposure to ARIA's Executives, strategic thinking and an ambition to build professional excellence within finance operations is desirable.

The main duties and responsibilities of the Finance Operations Lead would be to:

• Lead the delivery of financial operations and control processes, including P2P, month-end cycles, cash management and tax. Ownership of management and financial accounts across ARIA and its programmes, reporting to the Director of Finance and Accounts.
• Provide an excellent level of financial information and advice to underpin informed strategic decisions across the organisation, business partnering across various departments and evolving the use of data visualisation tools.
• Develop the governance processes for ARIA Programmes in line with Managing Public Money principles.
• Lead on the evolution of financial control policies and processes, fraud reporting, and ensure that financial risks are minimised.
• Provide leadership in financial reporting and engagement with internal and external stakeholders including: Audit and Risk Committee, Board, and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
• Inspire and develop staff within the finance team to ensure that they are properly trained and perform at an optimum level to provide an excellent service to the organisation. This team currently consists of a Finance Operations Manager.
• Oversee the Finance Operations Manager to ensure that accounts payable processing and month-end accounting closes are smooth, timely and accurate.
• Play an active role in developing ARIA's culture, values and supporting organisational structures. ARIA is essentially a “start-up”, so you will need to be comfortable with an ever-changing evolving business model.

You'll have:

• Significant experience in overseeing financial operations and controls to mitigate financial and fraud risk, including but not limited to P2P, month-end cycles, cash management, policy creation and implementation, and tax.
• Demonstrable experience and expertise across all aspects of financial management/FP&A within a similar sized organisation, including management reporting, budgeting/ forecasting cycles, financial modeling and business partnering with operational teams.
• Experience of operating within an innovation-led or start-up/scale-up environment, ideally within a technical/scientific or project-based organisation.
• Significant experience of developing new processes and/or systems which drive agile and distributed decision-making across a matrix of teams.
• Ability to bring clarity to innovative and novel situations and to engage and influence cross-functionally to drive towards solutions.
• Experience of either working as part of internal or external audit teams, or leading on engagement with them client-side.
• Highly numerate with excellent written and oral communication skills, including demonstrable experience of working with key stakeholders.
• Ability to understand and manage central government stakeholder reporting requirements and deliverables.
• Experience in line management, including ability to switch as necessary between hands-on day-to-day management as required in a small team, and medium-term tactical improvement required to support the future business model.
• Naturally passionate about improving the world with science / technology and highly motivated by the opportunity to build a world-changing organisation and community.
• An enjoyment of in-person culture, with the ability to be in the London-office 3 days per week

Desirable Criteria:

• Track record of working with financial operations teams in a grant-giving or receiving organisation.
• Experience of owning the Annual Report and Accounts delivery for a similar-sized organisation.
• Demonstrable experience in working cross-functionally on areas not typically seen as core finance-related, such as with People Operations, Operations or IT projects.
• Experience using a diverse range of systems associated with start-ups and scale-ups, including
• Google suite and data visualisation systems such as Tableau or Power BI.

Disability confident As a member of the disability confident scheme, ARIA guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant

ARIAis proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, wewill interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.ukWe will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview. Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment, and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Keywords : London jobs

Closed Date : 2024-12-15