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Chief Accountant
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
It's now an exciting time to join local government finance.
Join our Corporate Accountancy team, to lead employees who are responsible for preparing accounts and corporate budget monitoring. As Chief Accountant, you'll manage and inspire by creating opportunities to be creative and innovative, supporting team development and encouraging autonomy to enable everyone to do their best work.
Contributing to our strategic financial planning, helping to overcome the challenges of local government funding restrictions, you will play a key role in not only the finance service support and development but plans across the authority.
You will work 37 hours per week utilising our flexible working policy. Usually based at City Hall, the team are currently working a hybrid of home and office based.
What you'll be doing
You will contribute to the development of the Council's medium term financial strategy and policies. Leading and directing your team, you'll have management responsibilities to ensure your teams are best placed to protect the integrity of our financial systems and data. You'll oversee their work on corporate accounting, including preparation of our statutory accounts, budget monitoring, capital programme preparation and monitoring.
What you'll need
An experienced accountant, you must have an aptitude for technical accounting and finance systems, being able to provide high level strategic advice in a clear understandable manner. Managing a team to deliver financial accounting services, you'll have excellent technical and numeracy skills and be a strong team player. Highly motivated and organised with a positive "can do" attitude, you'll be able to communicate clearly with staff of all levels and with people from outside the Council. You'll have a keen eye for detail and a demonstrable record of delivery in a similar post.
As a leader you will also be able to not only manage but develop staff. Showing problem-solving skills with the ability to show decisiveness, innovation and creative thinking.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve the lives of those living and working in Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We will give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise through training and development. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including, discounts on city buses and trains, and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. Those who excel in the role will have ample opportunities to take on new challenges.
Join us
We're committed to recruiting a highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that meets the needs of our diverse, vibrant and growing city. That's why we have designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.
The role will require a DBS check.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Claire Gavagan - Assistant Director of Finance, via email to claire.gavagan@leicester.gov.uk
