Business Accountant

Job Introduction

We're looking to recruit a proactive and solution focused Business Change Accountant to join the Royal Borough of Greenwich Council's Accountancy Business Partnership Service. This role is a Fixed‑Term contract for 12 months. The role sits within the Health & Adults Services Finance team, which provides wrap‑around finance support to managers across adult’s social care, integrated commissioning, public health and nil recourse service areas and will be reporting to the Accountancy Business Change manager.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake work tasks at all stages of the budget cycle in line with financial and statutory regulations and contribute to the Council meeting its Section 151 responsibilities. The role will also involve monitoring specific grants and completing grant returns, supporting procurement processes and governance around income‑generating and the incurrence of expenditure as well as financial advice and guidance on change programmes and efficiencies as part of the Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS).

You will be required to regularly liaise with finance colleagues, service managers and external partners, building effective working relationships and ensuring a high standard of service is maintained and may need to line‑manage junior team members. To be considered, you need to be a qualified accountant or possess relevant experience at an equivalent professional level. While experience in supporting complex services areas like adult’s social care/public health and accounting within local government is highly desirable, the ability to demonstrate strong management and accounting skills is essential.

Equally important are excellent communication and presentation skills, strong IT skills (specifically Excel) and the ability to convey complex financial information in a clear and accessible manner.

For an informal discussion please contact
Samina Yasir
at
samina

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short‑listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification.

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Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values: Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.

Attached documents

• Business Change Accountant JD_.pdf
• Person specification