Job Title: Lead Accountants
Location: Walsall
Salary: £45,859 – £51,315 per annum
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent and Fixed term contracts
Closing Date: 27th June 2021
2 Posts
- Supporting the Council-wide Capital Programme
- Supporting the Adult Social Care Finance Business Partnering Team
The Council is transforming and with it, so is their Financial Services. This is an exciting time to join their team. The Proud Programme is their transformation Programme, which aims to transform the way the council works so that they can provide a better customer experience, increase staff satisfaction and engagement, and improve service efficiency and performance to their customers and communities.
The Programme is closely linked with their medium-term financial strategy and their Financial Services are a key driver in achieving the organisation’s aspirational vision.
About the role:
They are looking to recruit two experienced financial professionals for two of their Lead Accountant roles – one leading a newly formed finance capital team supporting all financial aspects of the Councils ambitious capital programme and the other supporting an existing and growing Business Partnering team, supporting the Adult Social Care & Public Health Directorate through their transformation journey.
These posts will be responsible for working with a team of finance officers, embracing and helping develop our excellent business partnering approach in support of our service managers and directors.
Though these roles are for specific areas, the posts are generic Lead Accountant positions and therefore can be deployed to work across the services, supporting the organisations key directorates, Environment and Economy, Adult Social Care, Children Services and Resources and Transformation on their transformation journey.
About you:
We are looking for enthusiastic and pragmatic individuals, with a can do attitude, significant experience of financial stewardship, along with excellent people, communication and staff management skills. Specifically for the role of Lead Accountant Capital, we are looking for someone with significant experience in supporting the financial aspects of a large Capital Programme.
As a Lead Accountant you should hold a CCAB / CIMA qualification, be undertaking CPD and be able to demonstrate extensive experience in managing staff. In recognition of the knowledge that experience in other sectors can bring, whist an understanding of local government finance would be an advantage it is not essential.
What’s on offer?
Their commitment to you is to provide a safe learning environment, where you’ll be offered the platform to develop and enhance your career prospects, with the aim to support your drive and commitment to progress and build on your existing experience. The diverse services that the council support and the progression of the transformation programme, brings with it exposure to many scenarios requiring financial support and advice. You can therefore expect opportunities to get involved and strengthen both your accountancy knowledge and your broader skillsets, enabling you to adapt to an ever changing business environment and support the many challenges public sector organisations face.
On top of this, they provide an attractive employment package that includes a generous annual leave entitlement of up to 33 days, a flexible working scheme that allows up to a further 12 days leave per year, working from home opportunities with emphasis on an optimum work life balance arrangement and a career average pension scheme.
Please click on the APPLY button to complete your application at the council’s careers page.
These posts are covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Accountant, Chartered Accountancy, Finance Controller, Revenue Accountant, Finance Manager, Head of Finance, Chartered Accountant, Financial Accountancy, Senior Accountant, Financial Accountant, Revenue Accountancy, ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS, CIPFA, ACA will be considered for this role.
