Accountant

North Yorkshire County Council; Harrogate; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a qualified Accountant at North Yorkshire County Council. You will join a dynamic finance team, contributing to financial management and strategic planning while supporting the council's mission to positively impact the community. This role offers professional growth, a varied workload, and a supportive work environment, including flexible hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Excellent local government pension scheme

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee discount benefits

Travel loans

Confidential wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant with CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent.
• Strong background in financial management and reporting.
• Capability to assist in strategic financial planning and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Support improvement projects across the organization.
• Assist departments in setting accurate service budgets.
• Contribute to strategic financial planning and commercial effectiveness.

Skills

Financial Management

Budgeting

Strategic Financial Planning

Commercial Effectiveness

Education

CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent

Job description

Salary: £41,511- £45,718

Grade: L

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37 per week

Location: Harrogate, North Yorkshire

Hybrid (Base office will be the closest NYC office to your home) with an occasional need for travel to County Hall, Northallerton

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified Accountant (CIPFA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) to join our highly regarded finance team.

The Role

It's more than just the bottom line...

As a key enabling service, the recently restructured finance team supports financial management across the whole council, as well as external clients and our council owned companies.

As a qualified accountant you will make a real contribution, stretching your abilities to overcome challenges and benefitting from the resulting opportunities and rewards.

This role offers a varied workload with numerous opportunities to apply and grow your financial expertise, including:

• Supporting improvement projects across the organization
• Assisting departments in setting accurate service budgets
• Contributing to strategic financial planning
• Enhancing commercial effectiveness
• Performing traditional accounting functions such as:
  • Treasury Management
  • Producing statutory accounts

Add to this the satisfaction of contributing to the achievement of great outcomes for our community, using your professional finance skills to help deliver services that make a positive change to people's lives - very often the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in our communities - and it adds up to a rewarding and stimulating role.

The Service

The service comprises a range of professional/technical roles which support a generic flexible structure.

The Finance Team is organised into directorate (or specialist) teams and targeted at higher risk budgets/services/projects. This in turn enables strong working relationships; an in-depth understanding of client finances; and value-added services.

Building knowledge and expertise across our service is key to our success and therefore over time, our flexible structure provides opportunity for job rotation, giving team members the chance to grow their skills and experience whilst building resilience across the whole team.

What We Offer

In return for your hard work, we can offer you a friendly, supportive team environment and, in addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier.

These include:

• An excellent local government pension scheme
• salary sacrifice schemes
• employee discount benefits including shopping, supermarkets, gym discounts and more!
• travel loans
• Health Assured - confidential help and support for your wellbeing

The service has embraced modern work practices, enabling colleagues to work from home, or any of our offices across the county. We come together as a team for development, connection and collaboration, otherwise we work where its most productive to do so. You will be provided with technology to enable efficient and effective work, ensuring that you are connected and well supported.

Click on our Total Rewards Brochure at the bottom of this advert to see the full range of benefits.

Contact

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact: Suzanne Truman [e-mail] or Nick Morgan [e-mail]

Key Dates

Closing date: 6 th July 2025

Shortlisting date: 8 th July 2025

Interviews: w/c 14 th July 2025

Key Documents

Job description.pdf

Total Rewards Brochure

NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

North Yorkshire Councils' purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other's contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.

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