Leicester City Council
Revenue Accountant
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Revenue Accountant
Reference: REQ8115
Description: Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Are you a qualified accountant with substantial experience in revenue accounting and financial management? Do you enjoy working with complex financial information and providing strategic financial advice that supports effective decision-making across a large organisation?
As a Revenue Accountant, you will play a key role in delivering the Council's corporate accountancy function. You will provide specialist financial advice and support to senior managers and stakeholders, coordinate and monitor revenue budget processes, and help ensure the Council meets its statutory financial responsibilities. The role also includes responsibility for supporting and developing staff, improving financial systems and processes, and contributing to the organisation's strategic planning and financial management framework.
This is a full-time post working 37 hours per week from Monday to Friday. Based at City Hall, the team currently works in a hybrid arrangement, combining home and office working depending on business needs. We offer flexible and agile working to support a healthy work-life balance.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Support and coordinate revenue budget preparation, setting and monitoring activities
- Complete year-end accounts
- Ensure financial information, returns and reports are delivered accurately and within agreed timescales
- Oversee grant and subsidy claims
- Support the Council's taxation returns and processes
- Provide expert financial advice to managers and stakeholders
- Interpret complex financial legislation and regulations
- Review and improve financial systems and procedures
- Lead or contribute to project work and service improvement initiatives
- Support the development of financial awareness across the organisation through the provision of advice, guidance and training
- Lead and develop a small team
- Provide management cover across the wider team when required
What You'll Need
- A fully qualified accountant and member of a CCAB-recognised professional body such as CIPFA, ACCA, ICAEW or CIMA
- Substantial post-qualification experience within a local authority, public sector organisation or another large and complex organisation
- Significant experience of revenue accounting, financial management and budget monitoring
- Previous staff management experience is also essential
- Ability to interpret and communicate complex financial information to a wide range of audiences, including non-financial managers
- Strong analytical, project management and IT skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities, work with minimal supervision and meet demanding deadlines
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About Us
We're committed to recruiting a highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that meets the needs of our diverse, vibrant and growing city. That's why we have designed our recruitment process to make you feel welcome and bring out your best. We'll do all we can to make the recruitment process as fair and inclusive as possible.
For a chat about this post please feel free to contact Head of Financial Strategy Adam Wuni via email to adam.wuni@leicester.gov.uk.
Region: Central
Location: City Hall
Salary: GBP42,839 - GBP46,142 per year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement)GBP62,918.92
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
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