The role
The Roles:
Southwark Council is looking to recruit 2 Divisional Accountants, one within the Children and Families Finance team and one within the Education Finance team.
Divisional Accountant – Children and Families
This is an interesting and varied position working within one of London’s most exciting and dynamic boroughs. The main purpose of your role will be to provide management accounting support to the Children and Families service within Southwark Council. It will include responsibilities such as providing financial and budgetary advice to budget holders, monthly forecasting, compiling of monthly financial reports, involvement in closing the accounts, updating the budget for the service area you support, deputising for the Senior Finance Manager and might involve managing one member of staff.
Divisional Accountant – Education
This is an engaging and exciting position working within one of London’s most exciting and dynamic boroughs. The main purpose of your role will be to provide management accounting support to the Education service within Southwark Council. Responsibilities will be very similar to those as described for the Children and Families post, but budgets will cover both General Fund and Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) funding sources.
Requirements
It is preferred that you are fully or part qualified in a professional finance qualification such as CIPFA, ACA, CIMA or ACCA and have relevant experience, but as long as you have at least one of these two requirements, you may apply. It is assumed that you are IT literate and have sound knowledge of Excel.
About Southwark
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse, and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
About you
We want only the best for Southwark and ideally we are seeking a qualified accountant with relevant experience. You will have sound financial experience, preferably within local government in similar roles. You will work closely with the service in order to understand their needs and help support them to increase their understanding of their budgetary and other financial responsibilities, which in turn will help with the Council’s savings targets and its aim of strong financial management. We would like someone with a good dose of common sense and the ability to strive to continuously improve the work they are responsible for.
Flexible working
Although Southwark Council supports a flexible working environment for staff, the minimum requirement at the moment is that a member of staff is physically present at our offices in Tooley Street, London for (at least) two days a week.
Additional information
You are welcome to contact Deon Kritzinger at deon.kritzinger@southwark.gov.uk or Aron Brown at aron.brown@southwark.gov.uk for an informal chat about the C&F post or the Education post respectively.
Additional salary details
The Council’s Professional Finance Services (PFS) division sits within the Finance Department. PFS provides professional accounting and financial advisory and support services to the organisation. The division is made up of around 50 members of staff arranged in a ‘hub and spoke’ model with three departmental finance teams and a central ‘corporate finance’ team.
Benefits and More Information:
https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/
https://jobs.theguardian.com/minisites/southwark-council/life-at-southwark-benefits-and-more/
Salary Range:
Grade 12: £51,099 - £58,197
Recruitment timetable
Application Closing Date: 11.59pm on 7th January 2024
Interview and Assessment: w/c 22 January 2024 (online assessments will take place during the week before the interviews)
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
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