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Principal Financial Accountant
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London Borough of Barking & Dagenham (LBBD)
📍 Barking - Hybrid working - 3 days office
💰 £57,239 per annum (PO7)
🕒 35 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
📄 Permanent
📅 Start Date: ASAP (subject to notice period)
About The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and qualified finance professional to join the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham as a Principal Financial Accountant within Corporate Finance. Reporting to the Senior Financial Reporting Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity, accuracy and transparency of the Council's financial reporting and statutory accounts.
This is a high-profile position where you will lead the year-end accounts closure process, oversee financial accounting activities, provide expert technical advice, and support robust financial governance across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the annual closure of accounts process and support the production of the Statement of Accounts, Group Accounts and Whole of Government Accounts.
- Ensure compliance with statutory accounting requirements, CIPFA Codes of Practice and audit standards.
- Oversee balance sheet management, reconciliations, reserves accounting and financial reporting.
- Provide expert advice on technical accounting matters, VAT compliance and complex financial issues.
- Support financial governance, risk management and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Lead on bad debt provisions and balance sheet monitoring.
- Manage SALIX and other energy efficiency schemes.
- Support internal and external audits and implement audit recommendations.
- Produce high-quality financial reports and present findings to senior stakeholders, elected members and external partners.
- Coach and support finance colleagues, promoting professional development and best practice.
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About You
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- A fully qualified CCAB accountancy qualification with membership of a recognised accountancy body.
- At least 3 years' accounting experience, including 2 years post-qualification experience.
- Significant experience delivering year-end accounts and statutory financial reporting.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, including financial reporting standards and regulatory compliance.
- Experience working within a large, complex public sector organisation, ideally local government.
- Knowledge of VAT, balance sheet management, reserves accounting and financial governance.
- Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- The ability to influence, challenge and build effective working relationships across a wide range of stakeholders.
- Experience of driving process improvements and managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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