Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location:  County Hall, LE3 8RB 

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £47,694 to £52,155 (pay award pending) 

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date:  30 March 2025

Interview Date(s):  w/c 31 March 2025

Leicestershire County Council is one of the best performing councils in the country. We've achieved several decades of high performances, with our success recognised by national Government, industry awards and our residents.

About the Role

We are recruiting a qualified CCAB Accountant to manage the completion of the County Council’s statutory financial statements. The post will also manage the fixed asset register and provide technical accounting and taxation advice to the Council. It will involve working closely with strategic finance professionals and the external auditor, and will maximise the benefit of the Oracle Fusion system and the associated reporting tools.

About You

To apply for this post, you must be CCAB qualified and hold membership of the relevant body. In addition you must also have experience of:

• Resolving financial problems, particularly efficiency, with sound workable solutions  
• Developing effective working relationships with senior and operational managers within service departments and other finance professionals
• Communicating technical financial information to non-finance specialists in an easily understandable way, both in written form and face to face
• Identifying and supporting the implementation of improvements in a finance function
• The different areas of finance
• Demonstrating a flexible approach and a persistence and resourcefulness to get things done
• Demonstrating an appropriate level of influence and persuasion and able to argue own case.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

To find out more information and to apply, please visit our careers site using the 'apply now' button.