Accountant

Adult Learning; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council is seeking a qualified Accountant to join their Adult Social Care Finance team. This role supports transformation projects, needing strong financial skills and communication abilities. Benefits include a competitive salary, generous holidays, and flexible working options. The position is fixed-term until November 2027, offering a chance to drive real change in vital community services.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous holiday entitlement

Health and Wellbeing services

Flexible working opportunities

Local Government Pension Scheme

Employee discounts programme

Qualifications

• Experience in creating business cases and project documentation.
• Ability to provide expert financial advice.
• Strong analytical skills to monitor and evaluate financial benefits.

Responsibilities

• Support financial aspects of the transformation projects.
• Work with colleagues on change programs.
• Monitor and evaluate financial benefits.

Skills

Technical financial skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Influencing

Education

CCAB qualification

Job description

Job Description

Accountant | 8966 | Fixed Term Contract until 30 November 2027 | 37 hours per week | £50,166 to £54,277 per annum (Scale L) | County Hall, Norwich

If you like a challenge, enjoy working with numbers and people, then please read on.

We are offering an opportunity for an experienced CCAB qualified accountant to join the Adult Social Care Finance Business Partnering team. The role is on a temporary full time basis for 2 years and would be working for the Senior Programme Accountant for Adult Social Care. This role offers you the chance to support real change for one of the Council’s most important services.

The Adult Social Care (ASC) department has an ambitious and stretching transformation agenda. This is being delivered by a four year rolling programme of work that focuses on innovation and integration to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the services they offer to vulnerable people in Norfolk. This vital role would put you at the heart of this change.

Whilst a finance role, the postholder will work closely with colleagues on the change programme within ASC and will support all financial aspects of the service’s transformation projects. You will therefore get the opportunity to be part of a wide array of interesting and thought-provoking pieces of work. In working closely with both programme managers, service leads, and other accountants you will have plenty of opportunities to develop and enhance your existing skill set.

You will be expected to have a strong level of technical financial skills to support non-financial staff with the creation of business cases and key project documentation including providing expert financial advice and specialist financial support such as costings, investment consideration (return on investment) and developing models for financial benefit realisation.

You will need to be able to balance challenging with supporting, as we seek to ensure our investment of taxpayer monies is based on strong evidence and offers value for money. Your role will need to work closely with the wider finance team, Insight and Analytics team and the service department to monitor and evaluate the financial benefits associated with the changes we are undertaking.

We are looking for a proactive individual, who is solutions focused and can remain calm under pressure. It is crucial that you are both competent with numbers but also have an ability to be effective in communicating and influencing.

For an informal discussion about this role please contact Claire Holcroft, Senior Programme Accountant on 01603 222366.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
• Norfolk Rewards, our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
• A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
• Relocation expenses (where applicable)
• An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
• Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions
• Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
• Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
• A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our workspaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class, enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

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Redeployment closing date: 9 October 2025 23:59

All other applicants closing date: 16 October 2025 23:59