Newly Qualified Accountant

Job description
Ref: 37155+

Salary: £42,618 - £46,500

This is made up of basic salary and allowance (where an allowance is available). Please note: Standard Civil Service pay rules apply for existing Civil Servants.

Location: Birmingham, East Kilbride, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham

Closing date: 11:55pm on Tuesday 2+ October 2024.

Job summary

If you are a talented and ambitious newly qualified accountant looking for an exciting opportunity to progress your career, the Government Finance Function (GFF) is looking for people like you!

The GFF is a far-reaching, diverse community that brings together finance professionals throughout government with a wide range of different roles and specialisms to get involved in and where everyone benefits from shared resources, development opportunities, expertise, and values.

We do that in lots of different ways: through strategy work, complex financial analysis, and budget-planning. Newly qualified accountants work at the heart of government, working to reduce public debt, building strategies for the UK’s future, dealing with complex accounts and unique transactions, and crunching numbers to achieve the most cost-efficient outcome.

As a qualified accountant, you will analyse complex financial data, identify trends and provide strategic financial insight to support the organisation.

Newly qualified accountants in the Government Finance Function deal with big budgets, in big ways. Everything’s rooted in real life. There are people behind our numbers. And we use our skills every day to achieve good and worthwhile outcomes, helping the public and bringing about positive change in society.

We are recruiting on behalf of several government organisations who are looking for dynamic and ambitious newly qualified accountants to support their work. You will not only join a government organisation, but you will also join a professional community of over 10,000 finance professionals across the whole of government.

This is an opportunity to progress your financial career in a supportive and professional community, where the work you do has a clear impact on communities across the UK and delivers for the UK internationally.

Roles available include:

Finance Business Partner: As a Finance Business Partner, you will provide strategic financial insight and analysis to support decision-making across your organisation

Strategic Financial Advisor: In this role, your key responsibilities will include offering strategic financial advice about budgeting, planning, and helping stakeholders navigate complex financial decisions.

Financial Accounting and Reporting: Your focus in this role will be delivering core financial controls and providing technical accounting advice. You will play a critical part in maintaining the integrity of the organisation’s financial statements.

Management Accounts: In this role, you will be responsible for producing detailed financial reports and adding value to the numbers by providing insight and analysis, enabling you to support business decisions through accurate financial data.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy.

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction.