Accountant Level 2 - Maternity Cover

Role Responsibility

Temporary full time - Maternity Cover

We are looking to recruit a KR10 Accountant Level 2 in the Revenue Finance (Adults and Public Health) Team. The post is a maternity cover, offered on a Temporary, full time basis, 37 hours per week, Up until 31st May 2025. The primary location for this post is Sessions House, although the post currently involves working from home, with some office working as required at Maidstone.

The main duties and responsibilities of this role include providing financial advice, challenge and direction to Heads of Service and/or Budget Managers to enable them to produce a regular, accurate, realistic revenue budget monitoring forecast.  As such, you will be required to meet with Budget Managers throughout the year, in accordance with the published timetable and year-end processes. The role is varied and includes delivering timely, accurate and compliant cash limit adjustments and assisting in the year-end process for services in your control, as well as responding to Freedom of Information (FOI) and media requests as directed. For full details of the role, please see the attached job description.

You will be Educated to NVQ Level 4 (e.g. AAT) or equivalent, and/or with proven ability to do the job.  You will be expected to have experience of working in a service led Finance environment, and experience of working effectively with Senior Officers, Heads of Service and Budget Managers.  It is important that you have accountancy experience of meeting fixed, non-negotiable deadlines whilst still maintaining high quality standards.  Due to the need to engage with others as part of this role, you must have high level interpersonal skills and communication skills, both orally and in writing. 

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

If you are interested in applying, you should state your interest, skills and experience for this role (relevant to the job description) in the ‘Reason for Applying’ section of the online application form.

The closing date for applications is 15 April 2024.

Contact Details

For further details about the role, please contact:

James Beamish, Revenue Finance Manager james.beamish@kent.gov.uk

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Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.