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Financial Systems Accountant, HISTORIC ENGLAND
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Historic England is the public organisation that brings new life to heritage to build a better future for every place and everyone.
Financial Systems Accountant
This is a full-time, permanent contract.
Location: Swindon, inclusive with hybrid working.
Benefits
- Competitive defined benefit pension scheme with 28.97% employer contributions
- 28 days holiday
- Corporate discounts
- Free entry into English Heritage sites across the country
- Development opportunities
To view our full range of benefits, please follow the link here.
What You Will Be Doing
As our Financial Systems Accountant, you will:
- Help maintain and develop the organisation’s and our customers’ financial systems
- Develop reports and provide support to users as part of a shared service
- Lead on financial systems reporting strategy, including creating, maintaining, and enhancing reports using Crystal Reports and XQuery
- Work with the Excel-based management information system and other management reporting tools
- Resolve support issues by interrogating and manipulating the MS SQL database
- Work with software suppliers to implement new releases, resolve software issues, and identify areas for improvement
Who We Are Looking For
- Experience of supporting a finance system of over 250 users
- Experience of financial or performance reporting
- Experience of MS SQL, Crystal Reports, and XQuery
- A willingness to get involved and work collaboratively with team colleagues and the wider business
- Ability to problem solve with attention to detail
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Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.
We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.
We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working, and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.
Why Work for Historic England
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.
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Historic England wants all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at recruitmentTeam@Historicengland.org.uk if you have any recruitment queries.
At Historic England, we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire, and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.
At Historic England, we value the expertise and individuality each candidate brings and want to hear about this in your own words. If you require the use of AI tools or other resources to support your application, we ask that all information is factually accurate, original, and reflects your own experience. To best represent yourself, we encourage you to write in your own words and use AI-generated content only as inspiration—not as direct input.
Provisional Interview Dates
19th August 2026
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