Job Description

Programme Accountant - Safety Valve

Haringey

500 Per Day - Outside IR35

You will support the oversight and management of financial benefits in the Safety Valve Programme. You will ensure that project deliverables relating to finance and performance metrics are met and benefits delivered in line with the Safety Valve Programme submission to the Department for Education (DFE).

You will sit within the departmental finance team directly supporting colleagues in Children's Services to support the delivery of the Safety Valve Programme.

You will be required to obtain, analyse and provide auditing information relating to each of the identified projects within the Safety Valve Programme to assure senior leaders across the Council of the progress being made on the financial benefits of the programme.

Key Accountabilities

• Work with members of the Safety Valve Steering Group and SEND Leadership team, to support financial and project deliverables that sit within the Safety Valve Programme.

• Undertake financial due diligence on financial progress, in relation to Safety Valve Programme projects to ensure that financial benefits are line with submissions to Council and Governmental departments.

• Support the development and adoption of appropriate and proportionate financial metrics across the Programme, to ensure that financial monitoring and evaluation is delivered in a consistent way for the Programme.

• To undertake Highlight Reporting ensuring that financial benefits for projects in the Safety Valve Programme are clearly identified and reported on to senior leaders within the Local Authority.

• To contribute to risk management activities within the Programme, as required by the Programmes Team for reporting purposes.

• To actively work with stakeholders using a range of communication techniques and styles to communicate the expected outcomes for the Safety Valve Programme.

• Work with the other Senior Project Officers to solve delivery issues on the Safety Valve Programme, in collaboration with other colleagues and stakeholders.

• Work constructively with the Assistant Directors and Senior Managers to provide oversight and support the governance arrangements, in relation to the Safety Valve Programme reporting on financial benefits.

Person Specification

• CCAB qualified or equivalent experience.

• Knowledge and understanding of financial metrics in relation to programme and / or project management methodologies.

• Knowledge and understanding of the public sector/local government environment.