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Chief Accountant

Chief Accountant


You will lead, manage and develop the operational aspects of the Council's financial processes ensuring that these are efficient, effective and add value to the Council. Undertake some elements of the operational work and ensure the following key processes are completed within relevant statutory and corporate deadlines, including drafting reports to the appropriate committee:
* Closure of the accounts at year-end and producing the statement of accounts for the Council and any subsidiaries
* Treasury management strategy, mid-year monitoring, outturn and the day-to-day treasury activities
* Systems accounting
* Accounting for taxation
* Transactional accounting
* Statutory financial returns
Ensure the management accounting function is supported with accurate and timely financial reports, systems accounting support and transactional processing e.g. data entry, journals, virements, uploading budgets to financial management system etc.
Provide high quality and timely financial advice and information to officers and councillors and maintain good working relationships with the internal and external auditors and any partner organisations.
Ensure that any information that is requested from internal or external parties is provided on a timely basis and is of good quality.
About you
As a talented and experienced local government finance professional you will ensure that proactive, pragmatic and outcome focused financial advice and solutions are delivered to services across the Council.
We are looking for someone who is an enthusiastic self-starter with a can-do attitude. You will be tenacious and have the ability to deliver high workloads within tight timescales.
You will need to have significant post qualification experience in a local government finance environment, including experience of supporting complex service delivery, have sound financial judgement and good interpersonal skills, with the ability to foster team spirit.
If you get excited about trying out new ideas and are always on the lookout for better ways of doing things, then you might be the new team member that we are hoping will join us.
This is an excellent opportunity to make a strong contribution to the Financial Services Team over the coming years.