Interim Capital/Assets Accountant

Job Description

A local government client are currently on the lookout for a Capital/Assets Accountant to join their team on an interim basis for an initial 6 month period.

• Contract Duration: 6 Months +
• Rate: DOE
• IR35: Inside
• Hybrid: Preference is X1 day in office per week. Could maybe consider 100% remote working for candidates situated further afar.
• Days: Full time (could also consider part time, minimum of X3 days per week).
• Start Date: Beginning of April.

Main Duties

• No managerial responsibilities, this will be a purely hands on technical accounting role.
• Closedown the capital accounts for 25/26.
• End to end assets accounting, a lot of revaluations, some depreciations and impairments, small number of intangibles.
• Capital additions, other team members finalise the values, your job will be to allocate them to the right place.
• There is no HRA so you will be dealing with purely general fund assets.
• There may be some overlap but another team member will be doing capital finance business partnering, monitoring the capital programme etc.
• Respond to audit queries on the assets accounts and act as a liaison on the capital accounts.

Requirements

• Must have specific Local Authority, Fire or Police service experience doing technical capital/assets accounting before with a strong understanding of Local Authority Code of Practice.
• Must have end to end assets accounting experience.
• Must be a fully qualified accountant.

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