Senior Accountant
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2024 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, PO1 2EP |
| Company: | Portsmouth City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3335 |
Summary
Senior Accountant - Community Wellbeing, Health & Care - Adult Social Care
Salary: Band: 10, £40,220 - £44,428 plus a Market Supplement payment of £2,741 p.a
37 hours per week
Portsmouth City Council
At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so.
With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.
Your New Role
The Financial Services team at Portsmouth City Council is committed to providing prompt and reliable information to the Council's Community Wellbeing, Health & Care Service Managers and NHS Partners.
Part of the Adult Social Care and Public Health Finance Team; you will be responsible for the development and management of the team's Accounting Technicians.
The role will focus on providing specialist knowledge and expertise in order to assist in the city council’s revenue and capital budget process, budget forecasting and monitoring processes and so advanced excel skills are therefore essential. The role will monitor and manage the services' £20m Government and other Public Bodies' Grants ensuring that conditions have been met.
What you'll need to succeed
You will be CCAB qualified with post qualified experience. Computer literate and proficient in the use of Word, Excel, Outlook etc you will have advanced spreadsheet skills, including using complex and large data sets which is essential. You will also have proven experience in successfully developing and maintaining complex financial models. With good organisational, prioritising and communication skills you will have experience of preparing budgets and budget monitoring including preparation of monthly accounts and final annual accounts. You will have experience of and skills needed to lead and manage people and projects as well as experience of appraising and evaluation the financial implications of projects and proposals using accounting techniques.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role including further information around what you need to succeed.
What you'll get in return
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Flexible working hours.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.
Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/
Application process:
If you have any questions, or would like an informal discussion about the role, please email Emma Baxter at Emma. Baxter@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.
Please read the full job profile (click here) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.
How to apply: When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points in the profile with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is important, or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please read alongside the 'How to apply' information. PLEASE DO NOT JUST SUBMIT A CV.
This is an ongoing advert with no set closing date. Applicants will be contacted as and when shortlisting takes place.
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.