Public Sector Capital & Service Accountant (Hybrid

About us.

North Somerset Council is committed to providing high-quality services to our community. We want to create a fair, green, and more inclusive environment for all our residents. Join us and contribute to making a positive impact on our community.

Are you ready to take the next step in your finance career?

We have two exciting opportunities to join North Somerset Councils Finance Service as either a Service Accountant or Capital Accountant. These permanent, career-graded roles offer progression from Level 7 to Level 9, depending on qualifications, experience and professional development.

The job descriptions and career grade specifications for both roles are attached.

These roles are ideal for experienced local government finance professionals, or newly qualified accountants with strong finance experience, who want to broaden their skills, influence decision‑making and support high‑quality public services.

You will join a supportive and ambitious finance team that works closely with services across the council, providing financial advice, challenge, monitoring, forecasting and reporting. Whether your interest is service finance, capital finance, or both, this is an opportunity to develop your career while helping the council make informed financial decisions for residents and communities.

As part of your application, please tell us whether you wish to be considered for the Service Accountant role, the Capital Accountant role, or both roles. We may consider interviewing candidates for both vacancies where this matches their skills, experience and career interests.

This role will support the Finance Business Partner Capital and the wider Capital Finance team, with a focus on capital programme monitoring, financial governance, forecasting, funding and statutory accounts support.

The role offers a strong mix of business partnering and technical finance, including working with project managers, service managers and finance colleagues to support the councils capital programme. It will suit someone who enjoys detailed financial work but also wants to provide advice, challenge and insight to support delivery.

As Capital Accountant, you will support capital programme monitoring and wider corporate finance activity, giving you exposure to a broad and interesting range of local government finance work.

This role will support Corporate Services and Healthy & Sustainable Communities, providing business partnering support, financial advice and constructive challenge to service managers and budget holders.

You will help services understand their financial position, manage risks, improve forecasting and make informed decisions. The role includes budget monitoring, forecasting, final accounts, medium‑term financial planning, financial reporting and support for savings and investment proposals.

This is a varied role for someone who enjoys working with people, building relationships and using financial information to support better decision‑making.

• Provide financial advice, support and challenge to budget holders, service managers, project managers and senior finance colleagues;
• Support budget monitoring, forecasting, reporting and final accounts;
• Help managers understand financial performance, risks and future financial implications;
• Prepare financial information, working papers, reports, returns and grant claims;
• Use financial and non-financial data to explain trends, variances and service pressures;
• Support strong financial governance, compliance and best practice;
• Contribute to improvements in forecasting, reporting, systems and processes;
• Work collaboratively across the finance service and supported service areas.

You may already be working in local government finance, or you may be a finance professional who has started your accountancy journey and is ready for the next step. What matters most is that you are motivated, curious, organised and keen to make a positive difference through the work you do.

We are looking for people who enjoy working with others, building strong relationships and using…