Job Description

Senior Accountant - Children, Families and Education Finance Team - 6 month fixed term contract/secondment opportunity due to funding.

Salary: Band: 10, \xc2\xa338,295 - \xc2\xa342,503 plus a Market Supplement payment of \xc2\xa32,616 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 management information to the Council\'s service managers, supporting strategic decision making and helping to identify risks, challenges and opportunities. Our team specialises in the finance for Children and Families Services, Education Services and Schools.

It\'s an exciting time to join our team as the council has been successful in securing government grants to progress new initiatives. You\'ll play an essential part in securing buy-in from people across the council and gathering insight to make sure it is used to its full potential.

Working with finance professionals you will deliver a range of high quality financial management and accountancy services to a range of clients including internal and external stakeholders. You will provide specialist knowledge and expertise in order to assist in the city council\'s revenue and capital budget process, budget forecasting and monitoring processes. Providing financial advice, you will also ensure the completion of statutory financial statements, returns and financial analysis.

What you\'ll need to succeed

You will be CCAB qualified with substantial post qualified experience. You will have good organisational, prioritising and communication skills as well as substantial experience of preparing budgets and budget monitoring including preparation of monthly accounts and final annual accounts. You will have experience of appraising and evaluation the financial implications of projects and proposals using accounting techniques. In addition, you will have proven experience in successfully developing and maintaining complex financial models.

Please read the job profile for the full details of this role

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:

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.

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. Please read alongside the \'How to apply\' information.

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.

Closing time/date: 10 September 2023 @ 23.59 pm

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

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