Senior Accounts Officer

What will you be doing?

The Senior Accounts Officer will primarily be responsible for ensuring compliance with Council Standing Orders, Financial Rules and Procurement practice. To act in accordance with Financial Regulations ensuring fairness and best value is achieved.  

You will support the Management team in relation to the Accountancy functions which include:

• Raising rental & sundry invoices for the business centres.
• Assisting in monthly budget management meeting.
• Debt management. 
• Supporting the balance sheet monitoring, reconciliations and reporting.
• Assist year end preparation.

About you

You will be educated to AAT Qualified (or recognised professional accounting qualification) level and have a strong background in finiacial services. 

You will ideally have a working knowledge of public sector and Local Government.

If you are looking to further your career and have the required attributes, then we would love to welcome you to our friendly team.

The role is customer facing, which will require onsite working. Hybrid working is not an option for this position. 

For an informal discussion about the role or to find out more information, please contact

Stacy Barratt Email: stacy.barratt@northnorthants.gov.uk 

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)