Are you looking for a new opportunity to develop a career in Local Government? We have an opening for a Senior Accountant Team Manager to join our client, a West Midlands based Local Authority.
Job Title:
Senior Accountant Team Manager
Duration:
Permanent
Company:
Warwickshire County Council
Hours:
Monday to Friday – 37 hours a week, between the hours of 09:00 – 17:30 (17:00 finish on a Friday)
Location:
Warwick
Salary:
£45,441pa
Holiday:
27 days (35 including Bank Holidays)
What does the job entail?
On behalf of Warwickshire County Council, Pertemps Recruitment have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Accountant Team Manager to join their team. This is a high-profile post and would be an ideal opportunity for someone who has experience of managing and/or supervising others within a Finance environment, that is looking to further develop their experience within Local Authority.
You will achieve this by:
- Responsible for the team management of 7 full time members of staff
- Provision of high quality, consistent financial advice, information and support to WCC service areas in order to deliver strategic and operational financial planning, monitoring and reporting.
- Provision of service reporting of financial position, progress and issues in relation to both capital and revenue financial plans to ensure financial resources and service activities are aligned.
- Responsibility and management of operational sub-team providing finance support and advice across WCC in line with the Finance service offer.
- Ensure principles of consistency and standardisation are embedded within the delivery of finance service
- Ensuring appropriate finance support is provided for the impact of current and new relevant legislative requirements
- Ensuring financial management is carried out in accordance with the financial framework, organisational policies and procedures.
- Supporting financial cycle processes ensuring timetables are adhered to, finance and service requirements are carried out and deadlines achieved.
- To ensure the effective escalation of financial risk.
- Alignment of team resource to priority areas.
- Ensuring the completion of required service-related returns requiring financial information
What are we looking for in the ideal candidate?
- Experience of working at in a professional finance environment
- Experience of managing and/or supervising others within a Finance environment
- Highly competent in analysing and investigating complex data and presenting this in a simplified, understandable way to non-financial colleagues.
- Sound judgement with the confidence to make significant decisions.
- The ability to work under a very high degree of pressure including meeting unpredictable deadlines and dealing with conflicting demands.
- The ability to demonstrate a high degree of complex problem-solving skills.
- Experience of recognising any areas of financial concerns and ensuring that these are escalated appropriately.
About our client
Warwickshire County Council are a leading Authority with offices across the County. They strive to work to their values and you can expect to be part of teams that are:
- High performing
- Collaborative
- Customer focused
- Accountable
- Trustworthy