Assistant Business Support Accountant
| Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £13,887 to £14,838 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 25 July 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, Suffolk |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | Ipswich Borough Council |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | REQ01022 |
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 day to day operational running of the integrated financial system and supporting Business Support Accountants and service areas to ensure the Council meets its financial obligations, key objectives and critical deadlines.
We expect the successful candidate to hold the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), and be able to 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:
Day to day duties in relation to the integrated financial system.
Providing assistance to Business Support Accountants.
Reconciliations.
Budgetary Control.
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, 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.
This post is offered on a fixed term basis to 31th March 2026.
For more information about this role please contact Dan Weaver via email dan.weaver@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
Interviews will be held on week commencing 28th July.
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.
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 day to day operational running of the integrated financial system and supporting Business Support Accountants and service areas to ensure the Council meets its financial obligations, key objectives and critical deadlines.
We expect the successful candidate to hold the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), and be able to 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:
Day to day duties in relation to the integrated financial system.
Providing assistance to Business Support Accountants.
Reconciliations.
Budgetary Control.
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, 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.
This post is offered on a fixed term basis to 31th March 2026.
For more information about this role please contact Dan Weaver via email dan.weaver@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
Interviews will be held on week commencing 28th July.
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.
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