Job Description

About the Group
Corporate Centre Group
The Corporate Centre Group provides corporate systems, services, solutions and facilities to enable Company Group to deliver effectively and efficiently. It currently consists of 6 teams: Commercial; Correspondence and Information Rights; Finance; HR; Information and Workspace Services and Treasury Group Shared Services. We provide a vast array of services and solutions that enable the Treasury and its ALBs to operate effectively. It is a large group of over 150 staff – based in London and Norwich. It is a diverse group – both in terms of backgrounds and ways of working; and staff are supported to work a large variety of working patterns.

About the Team
The Financial Accounts and Reporting team sits within the Corporate Centre Group. We are a team of seven, producing the Treasury Group Annual Report and Accounts and supporting the department’s executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies with our accounting and tax expertise.

Key accountabilities
The role will be required to job-share with another part-time range E to deliver the following responsibilities:
1. Lead on the interim and year-end preparation of the Treasury’s Annual Report and Accounts and Whole of Government Accounts return, involving the consolidation of the department’s agencies, non-departmental public bodies and companies.
2. Develop good relationships with stakeholders, including policy teams within the Treasury, finance colleagues from arm-length bodies, Audit and Risk Committee, to obtain relevant information and sign-off for the Annual Report and Accounts and provide ad-hoc advice when appropriate
3. Lead the production of the small company accounts for four of Treasury’s companies.
4. Liaise with external auditors over the completion of the audit of the Treasury’s Annual Report and Accounts and the small company accounts.
5. Lead on projects to improve the processes and controls for the Annual Report and Accounts production and various ad-hoc projects that may come up during the year, for example, the implementation of the new accounting standards or data returns to the central team.
6. Manage a number of key balance sheet items and the monthly processes including reviewing working papers and approving journals.
7. Liaise with policy teams and provide advice on the financial implications of new policies and initiatives, including changes to the financial structure of the Treasury group and financial operations requirements.
8. Direct line management of two Range D staff to assist in production of the Resource Accounts and other work to support the Finance team, including ensuring sufficient development opportunities are provided to those staff.

This role will attract an accountancy allowance if you are eligible and depending on your experience.

Responsibilities

Sift criteria
Candidates – Please note, you will be asked to give evidence in your application of how you meet these criteria.
Required Qualifications:
1. Qualified Accountant with recognised CCAB body or equivalent.

Required Behaviours, Experience and Technical Skills:
1. Experience of financial statements preparation and financial accounting for complex consolidations, including experience of applying IFRS.
2. Ability to analyse technical financial issues and to effectively communicate complex financial information to a wide range of stakeholders.
3. Ability to work independently and manage a busy workload at key times in the year to deliver deadlines and priorities.

The lead criteria is #1 above. If we receive a large number of applications, applications will be assessed against this criteria alone first. They will then be assessed against the other criteria if they have met the minimum score on the lead criteria.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• The interview panel will ask you questions about technical accounting.

Benefits

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements
Company views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they are able to enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; working from home, compressed hours and job sharing. Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month, providing you work enough hours to meet business need.

We also offer a generous maternity/ paternity and adoption leave package.

At company we have an incredibly broad remit; our work touches every citizen of the country. So, it’s important our employees come from the widest possible range of backgrounds, bringing us the widest possible range of perspectives and ways of thinking. We are committed to ensuring that all staff are able to realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years) (pro-rated for part-time/job share), plus 8 public holidays and the Queen’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant)
• Flexible working patterns (job-share)
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions. Find out more about Civil Service pensions
• Onsite restaurant and coffee bar. The London office also offers a gym, showers and prayer room
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme, season ticket advances and payroll giving
• Access to a retail discounts and cashback site
• A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1. Experience of financial statements preparation and financial accounting for complex consolidations, including experience of applying IFRS. 2. Ability to analyse technical financial issues and to effectively communicate complex financial information to a wide range of stakeholders. 3. Ability to work independently and manage a busy workload at key times in the year to deliver deadlines and priorities.