Your new company This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing, friendly finance team based at a long-established organisation in Oxford. The purpose of the role is to provide maternity cover over the next 12 months, including handover, and so a start date before the end of April is required.Your new role Deliver accurate month-end and year-end accounting, reconciliations and financial reports, ensuring compliance with policies, regulations and audit requirements.Provide clear financial guidance to stakeholders, resolving accounting queries and explaining financial impacts across projects, staffing, procurement and licencing.Build strong working relationships with service and project managers, offering expert advice on costing, pricing, KPIs, budgeting, forecasting and financial performance.Develop a deep understanding of services and projects to identify risks, opportunities, cost drivers and value for money improvements.Produce timely financial reporting and analysis, highlighting variances, trends, risks and opportunities, and escalating material issues where necessary.Support project life cycles by reviewing business cases, assessing financial benefits, monitoring delivery, ensuring accurate capital/revenue treatment and challenging financial assumptions where appropriate.Lead the development of short-term and long-term forecasts for both General Ledger and project portfolios, identifying risks and improving planning tools and processes.Maintain pricing models