Description
Chief Finance Accountant (CIFPA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
Qualifications and Experience
- Professional and post specific requirements
- Full professional membership of CIPFA or equivalent (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
- Experience of financial accounting in a multi-functional organisation
Skills
- Professional and post specific requirements
- Expertise of local government finance, accounting practice and the regulatory framework
- Thorough understanding of financial accounting concepts and principles and the ability to apply them to local government accounts
- Knowledge of the process of closing the accounts, and the ability to plan and manage this process within a local authority
Requirements
- Good communication skills, both orally and in writing
- Superb numeracy skills
- Sense of the role of support services
- Understanding of the principles of value for money
- Clear knowledge of ways in which the council's policy of equality in employment and service provision can be reflected in all aspects of work of the team
- Understanding of the council's vision and mission statement and how they relate to the work of the team
Contact:
(see below)