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Assistant Business Support Accountant
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,269 to £34,314 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 June 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, Suffolk |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ipswich Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REQ00988 |
Summary
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your career in finance? Ipswich Borough Council is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our team as an Assistant Business Support Accountant.
As an Assistant Business Support Accountant, you will play a key role in providing expert support and analysis for the Council’s services. This role primarily supports the Housing Revenue Account (HRA), Shared Revenues Partnership and repairs & maintenance programme. You assist a Business Support Accountant to help ensure the Council meets its financial obligations, key objectives and critical deadlines.
We will be looking to appoint to either level depending on skills and experience.
If appointed to level 1 the council requires that you obtain the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT). Full study support towards this qualification will be provided within a given time period.
If appointed to the level 2 of the career grade we expect you to hold the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), and support Business Support Accountants with the council’s monthly budget monitoring process. As well as being a trusted advisor by providing high quality budgetary advice to the services you will support to create a real and active working relationships with both operational and management.
Key Responsibilities:
Providing assistance to Business Support Accountants.
Reconciliations.
Budgetary Control.
Day to day duties in relation to the integrated financial system.
As well as a good salary, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
Employees are contractually enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme, one of the few remaining defined-benefit pension schemes in the UK. There are many benefits to the Local Government Pension Scheme, which include:
on average we pay over twice as much as staff towards each pension
you get tax relief on all your contributions
you can take a tax-free lump sum payment on retirement
each year you will build up a pension based on your pay and inflation increases will be added to ensure that your pension keeps up
protection should you have to retire early due to ill health
life cover of three times your pay from the first day you join the scheme
dependents benefits payable if you die so your pension does not die with you
there are no hidden management fees or hidden costs, you simply pay a percentage of your salary
For more information about this role please contact Will Suttle via email will.suttle@ipswich.gov.uk
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role:
Job Description and Person Specification – Career Grade Level 1 – here
Job Description and Person Specification – Career Grade Level 2 – here
Interviews will be held on week commencing 9th June
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications.
Please note CVs are not accepted.
You can search and view our vacancies without creating an account, but will be prompted to create one when you click the ‘Apply’ button. All communications regarding your application will be made by email, so please make sure your email address is correct when you register.
Data Retention
In compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 your details will remain on record for 12 months, this includes your account. After 12 months your data and account will no longer be available. It is therefore advisable to save a copy of your application if you believe it to be of some use in the future as once Data has been cleansed, there will be no way of retrieving it, and you will be required to sign up again should you wish to apply for another vacancy.
As an Assistant Business Support Accountant, you will play a key role in providing expert support and analysis for the Council’s services. This role primarily supports the Housing Revenue Account (HRA), Shared Revenues Partnership and repairs & maintenance programme. You assist a Business Support Accountant to help ensure the Council meets its financial obligations, key objectives and critical deadlines.
We will be looking to appoint to either level depending on skills and experience.
If appointed to level 1 the council requires that you obtain the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT). Full study support towards this qualification will be provided within a given time period.
If appointed to the level 2 of the career grade we expect you to hold the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), and support Business Support Accountants with the council’s monthly budget monitoring process. As well as being a trusted advisor by providing high quality budgetary advice to the services you will support to create a real and active working relationships with both operational and management.
Key Responsibilities:
Providing assistance to Business Support Accountants.
Reconciliations.
Budgetary Control.
Day to day duties in relation to the integrated financial system.
As well as a good salary, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
Employees are contractually enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme, one of the few remaining defined-benefit pension schemes in the UK. There are many benefits to the Local Government Pension Scheme, which include:
on average we pay over twice as much as staff towards each pension
you get tax relief on all your contributions
you can take a tax-free lump sum payment on retirement
each year you will build up a pension based on your pay and inflation increases will be added to ensure that your pension keeps up
protection should you have to retire early due to ill health
life cover of three times your pay from the first day you join the scheme
dependents benefits payable if you die so your pension does not die with you
there are no hidden management fees or hidden costs, you simply pay a percentage of your salary
For more information about this role please contact Will Suttle via email will.suttle@ipswich.gov.uk
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role:
Job Description and Person Specification – Career Grade Level 1 – here
Job Description and Person Specification – Career Grade Level 2 – here
Interviews will be held on week commencing 9th June
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications.
Please note CVs are not accepted.
You can search and view our vacancies without creating an account, but will be prompted to create one when you click the ‘Apply’ button. All communications regarding your application will be made by email, so please make sure your email address is correct when you register.
Data Retention
In compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 your details will remain on record for 12 months, this includes your account. After 12 months your data and account will no longer be available. It is therefore advisable to save a copy of your application if you believe it to be of some use in the future as once Data has been cleansed, there will be no way of retrieving it, and you will be required to sign up again should you wish to apply for another vacancy.
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