Accountant Level 2 - Revenue Finance

Role Responsibility

We have a permanent, full-time vacancy (37 hours a week) for a KR10 Accountant Level 2 (Revenue Finance, Adults and Public Health) within Kent County Council’s (KCC’s) Finance division. 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 completion of various revenue budget related government returns, 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.

We politely request that all applicants provide full details of their skills and experience relevant to this role, in the section ‘Reason for Application’. Furthermore, please could all applicants refer to the details of the Person Specification (in the attached Job Description) in their ‘Reason for Application’. Candidates may upload a copy of their CV as part of their application, but key relevant skills/experience must also be referenced in the ‘Reason for Application’.   

Interviews will be undertaken via video call on MS Teams in March 2022. Shortlisted candidates may also be required to undertake testing on MS Excel, as part of skills evaluation.

Contact Details

For further information on this role, please contact James Beamish, Revenue Finance Manager (Adults and Public Health), james.beamish@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

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.