Based within the Budgeting and Financial Management Service, the senior role of Corporate Accounting Manager provides strategic financial advice to support effective financial decision making and risk assessment. The main tasks of the Corporate Accounting Manager are to coordinate and manage the council’s accounting processes and treasury function.

Management of the accounting processes includes; overseeing the production of the annual accounts, monitoring the council’s revenue and capital expenditure, reporting the results to councillors and senior officers, preparing the annual capital programme, working across the finance community and attending committees.

The Corporate Accounting Manager plays a key role in leading on the development and implementation of the council’s investment strategies and borrowing strategies. This includes management of the council’s cash flow and debt management portfolio.

In addition to having sound technical and managerial knowledge, you will be forwarding looking, experienced in working in a rapidly changing and very complex environment, and ready to help find new solutions.

Full details of the job role are set out in the job description. To apply for this exciting opportunity, you must be CCAB qualified, with relevant accounting and managerial experience, knowledge of accounting principles, and excellent financial and commercial awareness.

This is a politically restricted post, and the post holder cannot be an elected Councillor in any local authority.

For an informal discussion regarding this role, please contact Harvey Bullen, Director of Financial Management (01603 223330).

All our office-based roles are currently working from home as part of our Smarter Working plans and to support the health and safety of all our colleagues. We anticipate that working remotely will be a key feature of this role and when offices re-open your office base will be County Hall, Norwich. Our technology platform and equipment is first class enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

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Please quote job reference: 63110 FNHE

Closing date: 24 February 2021.

Interviews will take place via video technology, where you will have the opportunity to discuss these working arrangements.