Financial Accountant
Kent Police and Essex Police, Tovil, Maidstone
Financial Accountant
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Kent Police and Essex Police, Tovil, Maidstone
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 14 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: c51d9b3833de473d8a97ab69423fdf42
Location ref: Tovil, Maidstone
Full Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to undertake the role of Financial Accountant to establish and monitor the accounting standards and policies, ensuring compliance with financial legislation, regulations and guidelines. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring a strong financial position within a £455m complex public sector organisation. This role also has management responsibility for a Senior Finance Officer.
The successful candidate would be a qualified accountant who is able to evidence experience and a strong technical ability within a large complex organisation. This should be combined with a strong understanding of the developments within local government accounting and advanced Excel skills.
Experience from within a public sector organisation such as police forces or local government is desirable but not essential.
The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines together with staff management experience would also be an advantage.
Although this is a full-time role, consideration will be given to the successful applicant requesting flexible or part time working arrangements., If you're not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you're from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn't apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At Essex Police we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work.
Through the dedicated commitment of our support networks, DE&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our DE&I commitments, ensuring Essex Police is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.
Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.