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