Career Graded Accountant
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Oldham, OL1 1HD |
| Cwmni: | inploi |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 75707998 |
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Career Graded Accountant
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Contract: Fixed Term (3 years)
Salary: £33,366 - £45,718 per annum (Grade 6/7/8)
Hours: 36.66 per week
Location: Spindles Shopping Centre, George Street. OL11HD
Closing Date: Wednesday 25th June 2025
Shortlisting and Interview Dates: TBC.
Role Overview:
We’re excited to offer a three year fixed-term graduate opportunity within Oldham Council’s Finance Service. This career-graded role is designed to support your professional development, with structured progression through pay grades as your skills and experience grow. Throughout the programme, you’ll gain hands on experience across all areas of the Finance Service, building a strong foundation in local government finance. More than just numbers, your work will directly contribute to decisions that shape services and improve outcomes for communities across Oldham, making a real difference where it matters most.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure items are reconciled and all holding accounts are cleared on a regular and timely basis and producing accurate and complete working papers
- Produce and present financial management information, budget monitoring and trading reports, which are accurate, timely and appropriate to the audience
- To assist the Senior Finance Manager (SFM), Finance Manager (FM) and Senior Accountant (SA) in providing technical advice, guidance, briefings and training appropriate to the audience on a range of financial issues including those relating to high profile projects / programmes
- To assist the SA in completing all grant claims and statistical returns for their area on an accurate, timely and regular basis
- To be a member of a project team assisting in the development of a project initiation document and a project plan, assisting in ensuring that the project delivers agreed outcomes successfully and on time
Key Requirements:
To succeed in this role, you will be able to:
- Analyse and interpret data and present it effectively to various audiences to inform decision-making.
- Communicate effectively and be confident to challenge when advising and supporting senior officers
- Excellent organisational skills to agree, develop and manage the provision of appropriate financial accounts; ensuring managers have access to appropriate and timely information about their service.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About Us:
We want Oldham to have vibrant, safe neighbourhoods where people are proud to live with opportunities for healthier, more fulfilled lives; and a sustainable, thriving economy. As we look to the future, the challenges may be significant, but so are the opportunities. We’ve identified three missions with our residents and partners, focusing on what will deliver the biggest impact:
A Great Place to Live, Healthier, Happier Lives, and Green and Growing.
We’re looking for candidates who will support us to achieve our ambitions and we encourage you to download our Corporate Plan: Ready for the Future and our Oldham Plan for further information.
Our Values and Behaviours:
By driving innovation, investing in our people, and championing our communities, we will ensure that Oldham continues to be a place where everyone can live their best life. To support this, we have three core values which define who we are and how we operate. These are ‘Proud, Ambitious, and Together’, and they shape our culture, inform our decisions, and inspire us to deliver on our commitments to the people of Oldham.
We have translated these values into five behaviours which guide our actions and are the standards we hold ourselves to, day in and day out:
- Work with a resident focus
- Support local leaders
- Committed to the borough
- Delivery high performance
- Take ownership and drive change
You can find out more about our values and behaviours on our greater.jobs Oldham page
Our Benefits Package:
At Oldham Council we offer a great benefits package for our employees, which includes the following:
- 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10-years’ service
- The option to purchase additional annual leave.
- An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions.
- Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active. Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and
- more.
- Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work.
- Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
- Staff recognition and celebration events.Peer support groups
Inclusive Recruitment:
We work closely with employees to help them work at their best, including making adjustments such as flexible working, describing available working patterns, providing equipment or making changes to the workplace.
If you’re an applicant with disabilities, anyone aged 24 or under and have previously been in or currently in care, a carer or someone who has served in the Armed Forces and you meet the essential criteria of the role, you are guaranteed to reach the first stage of assessment under our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme.
Data and Privacy:
For details of how we use your data please see our privacy notice.
Important Information:
Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for a current employee at risk of redundancy, it can be pulled back at any point, up to the post being formally offered to a candidate who is not at risk of redundancy.
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