Principal Accountant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Accountant to join the Education Funding Team within the Children & Families Directorate.

Do you want to make a real difference to the education of our children and young people?

If you want to be a part of an amazing team delivering excellent services to schools, SEND colleagues & managers and other partners, we’d love to hear from you.

• Are passionate about supporting services to improve outcomes for children and young people
• Are highly organised, can work on their own initiative and be able to manage and prioritise their workload within a fast-paced working environment
• Have excellent IT skills and are confident in gathering and analysing information to support decision making and project management
• Have a collaborative approach to working
• Have excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Are committed to learning new skills

Our team looks after the Schools and High Needs Blocks of the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) and provides various financial services to our maintained schools.

You will have a diverse role supporting many aspects of education funding whilst contributing to the strategic financial planning of the Dedicated Schools grant (DSG). Your role will incorporate the financial management of the DSG Schools and High Needs Blocks, including monitoring of the SEND Reform Plan.

You will provide advice and guidance to partners and will undertake change projects to improve financial processes and services.

It will be a challenging but rewarding role, presenting opportunities for creativity and service development within education and finance.

• A competitive salary (pay award pending).
• Access to Local Government pension scheme.
• Generous annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays, with the ability to buy additional leave annually.
• A bespoke induction.
• Agile working, enabling both home working and office based working
• A generous Flexi Scheme.
• Access to Occupational Health, Mindfulness sessions and other wellbeing initiatives.
• Access to various salary sacrifice schemes – covering cars, white electrical goods and tax efficient saving contributions towards your pension.
• Discounted travel pass.
• Access to union membership

This role is being offered on a 12-month fixed term / secondment opportunity. For a secondment, you must gain your manager’s approval prior to applying.

If you would like to discuss this role, please contact Sarah Lawton at s

The closing date for applications is Thursday 18 June (noon).