The Financial Accounting Team is responsible for ensuring accounting and taxation services, and financial reporting are delivered to a high standard.
In this role the Senior Financial Accountant Technical Lead will:
- Ensure the Council meets its internal and external reporting and planning accountability commitments
- Provide the best professional advice available in regard to accounting standards and tax legislation
- Provide the best professional advice available in regard to Councils accounting policy and accounting treatments of all processes, transactions and projects
- Respond to specific financial issues and risks at Council
- Planning, managing, and delivering key project work requirements
Strong demonstrable knowledge of and experience in:
- High calibre finance professional with experience in an accounting or business environment.
- Experience in understanding strategic outcomes, particularly non-financial outcomes.
- Demonstrated knowledge in the application and interpretation of taxation and other relevant legislation.
- Applies technical knowledge and skills to actual situations and across different contexts
- Ability to apply technical knowledge and practical understanding of accounting standards, principles, relationships and language to the preparation and production of financial information
- Insightful use of financial analysis techniques, tools and concepts to provide practical counsel to business and management in order to drive organisational results
- Experience in the processes, systems and legislation relating to financial reporting within local authorities
- Applies data management skills; can quickly and effectively extract and manipulate numerical information
Apply via the link provided or email peter.campbell@beyond.co.nz
Job Ref: 118405