Business Change Accountant

Royal Borough of Greenwich; Woolwich; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Borough of Greenwich is seeking a Business Change Accountant for a one-year fixed-term contract at The Woolwich Centre. The role covers accounting functions across several service areas, ensuring policy compliance and maintaining the council’s medium-term financial plan.

You will support budget setting, closure of accounts, and development of staff while fostering cross-service collaboration in a hybrid working model (office-based part of the week and home-based part of the week).

Qualifications

• Previous Local Government Accounting experience is essential.
• Excellent communication and time-management skills.
• Hybrid work pattern; 35-hour week.

Responsibilities

• Account for the accounting functions of multiple service areas, ensuring policy compliance and the Council's financial position.
• Oversee budget setting and closure of accounts to meet statutory requirements.
• Support senior managers in staff development, performance and proactive problem solving.
• Promote cross-service collaboration and cost-effective service delivery.

Skills

Local Government Accounting experience

Excellent communication skills

Job description

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Job Reference royalgreenwich/TP/6589/1269

Number of Roles:

1

Type of Role:

Fixed-term

12 month contract

35

Main Location:

The Woolwich Centre

Closing Date:

18/11/2026

Job Category:

Accounting and finance

Region / Division:

The Woolwich Centre

Directorate:

Resources

Job Introduction

Business Change Accountant

1 x One Year Fixed Term Contract

We are proud to be awell-run borough. A world heritage site, our communitiesarevibrant and diverse,and our elected members are ambitious to realise the potentialof the borough whilst working within a challenging financial environment.

Our Accountancy Partnering Service provides accounting and business support across a range of the Council’s Directorates, including Resources, Legal & Democratic and Communities, Environment & Central Services . In this post, you will :

• Be responsible for the accounting functions of multiple service areas, ensuring their sound running within Council Policy and the medium-term financial position of the Council . Ensuring that Financial Procedures and practices are followed, and contributing to ensuring the Council meets its section 151 responsibilities .
• Be responsible for ensuring that these services are professionally managed and delivered at the operational level, including budget setting and closure of accounts .
• To be part of a team that maintain and develop a culture of high professional standards and achievement that enables the delivery of the Services objectives through continuous improvement using innovation and creativity .
• Support senior managers in the day‑time managing and developing of staff and performance and to be a pro‑active and innovative problem solver .
• Be committed to fostering cross service working within and beyond the Council and committed to cost effective service

You will have excellent communication skills and effective time management skills, be a good team player but also able to work independently with minimal supervision . Previous Local Government Accounting experience is essential for this role.

Interviews likely to be held w/c30 th November 2026

Our Finance teams are currently working in a hybrid way, this means you’ll spend some of the week office‑ based and some will be working from home .

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Early Advert Close: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any job advert earlier than the advertised closing date where there is reason to do so (for example high volume of applications).

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short‑listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification . We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Salary: Salaries advertised are for a standard working week of 35 hours unless otherwise stated. Please use this 'Salary Calculator to help you calculate a pro rata salary.

Our Staff Values: Our Staff Values are important to us. Candidates will be continuously assessed against our staff values throughout the recruitment process. Where candidates demonstrate views and behaviours that do not meet the standards of our staff values, we reserve the right to reject their application/ registration.