Senior Technician Transactional Accounting

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Job summary

Nottingham City Council is seeking a Senior Technician in Finance to provide accurate financial support, analysis, and challenge across programmes and projects. You’ll work within the Finance service to prepare returns, maintain corporate registers, and produce reconciliations to support year-end disclosures.

The role offers hybrid working in Nottingham, with a structured progression path, strong governance, and the opportunity to contribute to ongoing financial resilience improvements for the

Qualifications

Understanding of accounting principles and their applicability to local government.
Ability to use systems to produce financial information.
Experience of providing financial analysis and option appraisals.
Ability to work on your own initiative with minimal supervision.
Financial and commercial awareness with strong analytical skills.
Ability to assess risk whilst supporting services and strategic priorities.
Ability to communicate to colleagues from other disciplines.
Understanding of local government challenges and Nottingham City Council context.

Responsibilities

Provide accurate and timely professional financial support, advice, and challenge to programmes, projects, and decisions.
Ensure compliance with our financial policies, procedures, and controls.
Support the completion of statutory and non-statutory returns, including grant claims.
Produce audit working papers for assigned areas.
Prepare corporate reconciliations for assigned areas.
Promote correct use of the Chart of Accounts across the Council.
Support managers in developing, updating and assessing budgets and MTFP assumptions.

Skills

Accounting principles

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Communication skills

Education

Part-qualified accounting

Job description

Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Contract Type: Permanent

Worker Type: Hybrid

Salary: £33,673 (Level one) - £36,581 (Level four) per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Location: Loxley House, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here .

Finance & Resources Directorate

Build your finance career where it matters. Support the services that shape Nottingham.

Start your next chapter at the heart of one of the country's most ambitious finance improvements.

Nottingham City Council has changed significantly in the last twelve months through a programme of modernisation and re-organisation. The new leadership team is revitalising the focus on outcomes and effectiveness whilst building financial sustainability. The Senior Technician roles are key to the onward progression and embedding of this change.

At Nottingham City Council, finance isn't just about numbers – it's about making decisions that shape services, support communities, and deliver real change for 331,077 residents. As a Senior Technician, you'll work across the whole finance service (excluding transactional services), supporting the teams that produce the financial analysis, reporting, and advice that enables the council to deliver for its communities.

This is a role for someone in the early stages of their finance career who is ready to take the next step – building on your existing skills, developing your understanding of local government finance, and making a real contribution to the council's financial resilience.

About the Role

You’ll provide accurate and timely financial support, advice, and challenge to a range of programmes, projects, business cases, and decisions. You’ll work across the finance service, supporting the teams that produce the financial information, analysis, and reporting that informs decision-making at every level.

Your work will be varied and will develop your skills across a range of financial disciplines. You’ll support the completion of statutory and non-statutory returns, including grant claims, ensuring the accuracy of financial information and that grants are maximised. You’ll support the maintenance of corporate registers that support year-end statutory disclosures, such as Grant Income. You’ll produce corporate reconciliations for assigned areas, which may include bank reconciliation, debtors, reserves, Trial Balance, grant income, and recharges. You’ll prepare audit working papers for assigned areas, ensuring they comply with audit requirements.

The reality of the role:

You’ll be joining at a pivotal moment. The council has set a balanced budget for 2026/27 with a forecast surplus of £1.063m, delivered a £20.4m net underspend in 2025/26, and reduced debt from £827m to £292m in six years. But significant pressures remain – the MTFP projects a cumulative budget gap of £37.107m over four years, and the council has identified £11.948m in new savings for 2026/27, with a target of £50m over the MTFP period.

Your work will directly support the council's response to these challenges. You’ll support Business Partners to ensure that the forecasted financial position is an accurate and true reflection of the business position. You’ll be proactive in identifying further training requirements of managers using the forecasting system, what corrective action is required, and supporting managers in developing those actions. You’ll also identify business risks and inform managers so they can be addressed.

This is not a role where you’ll be on your own with no support. You’ll be part of a team, working under the guidance of qualified accountants and Business Partners, with opportunities to develop your skills and take on more responsibility as you grow.

Your Influence and Responsibility

Financial support: You’ll provide accurate and timely professional support, advice, and challenge to programmes, projects, business cases, and decisions as directed by Business Partners and Accountants.
Compliance and control: You’ll contribute towards ensuring that financial policies, procedures, and controls within your team are compliant with all relevant legislation, codes, regulations, guidelines, standards, and best practice.
Reporting and returns: You’ll support the completion of statutory and non-statutory returns, including grant claims, ensuring accuracy, timely completion, and that grants are maximised.
Analysis and insight: You’ll ensure that the advice you provide enables your team to create analysis to inform policy and funding decisions, with consideration of constitutional process.
Collaboration: You’ll liaise with other external organisations with regard to data collection, financial analysis, and benchmarking.

What You’ll Lead and Influence

Supporting the completion of statutory and non-statutory returns, including grant claims
Supporting the maintenance of corporate registers to support year-end statutory disclosures
Supporting Business Partners to ensure that forecasted financial positions are accurate and true reflections of the business position
Providing accurate and timely professional support, advice, and challenge to programmes, projects, business cases, and decisions
Supporting managers in the development, achievement, and updating of business plans to ensure the robustness of the MTFP is maintained
Preparing audit working papers for assigned areas
Producing good quality and fully supported corporate reconciliations for assigned areas
Promoting correct use of the Chart of Accounts across the Council
Ensuring corporate timelines, standards, and processes are applied to the budget and closedown process

About You

You’re someone in the early stages of your finance career who is ready to take the next step. You may already be working in a finance role and looking to develop your skills in a larger, more complex organisation. You may be part-qualified and looking for a role that will support your development. Or you may have relevant experience and be looking for an opportunity to build your career in local government finance.

Whatever your background, you’ll bring a willingness to learn, a commitment to accuracy, and a desire to make a real contribution to the council's financial resilience.

You’ll bring:

An understanding of accounting principles and practices and their applicability to local government
Able to utilise a range of systems to produce easily understandable financial information
Experience of providing information that supports decision making through financial analysis and option appraisals
An ability to work on your own initiative with a minimum of supervision
Financial and commercial awareness with strong analytical skills and a creative approach to problem solving
AN ability to assess risk whilst effectively supporting services and strategic priorities
Ability to communicate to colleagues from other disciplines through strong communication skills
An understanding of the current issues and challenges facing local government in general and Nottingham City Council in particular

You’ll also bring the behaviours that make a great local government finance professional:

A willingness to learn and develop – you’re open to feedback, you look for ways to improve your own skills, and you take ownership of your time, wellbeing, and performance
A collaborative approach – you work well with others, you deal with disagreement constructively, and you're honest about what's possible
A proactive mindset – you act early when you spot risks, gaps, or unmet needs, and you suggest improvements for how you and your service work
A commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion – you treat people fairly and with respect, you challenge bias and exclusion where you see it, and you value different perspectives
A mission-driven, public service orientation – you're motivated by the knowledge that your work supports services that make a difference to people's lives

Why Nottingham, Why Now?

Few councils have undergone a change of this scale. Having rebuilt financial resilience and restored confidence, we’re now focused on long-term excellence.

Nottingham's financial recovery has been remarkable. In November 2023, the council issued a Section 114 notice. By early 2026, the government confirmed its intention to scale back intervention – acknowledging the significant progress made. The council delivered a £20.4m net underspend in 2025/26, did not require Exceptional Financial Support, and set a balanced budget for 2026/27.

But the next phase requires discipline at every level. The council must continue to deliver savings while investing in services. It must manage the financial implications of Local Government Reorganisation – with £28m set aside for preparation costs – while maintaining day-to-day financial control.

Nottingham is a city of 331,077 residents, with a notably young population – 69.7% aged between 16 and 64. It is the 18th most deprived lower-tier authority out of 296, with life expectancy in the most deprived areas up to 10 years lower than the city average. The council supports 569 children in care, 779 children in need, and around 7,010 individuals in adult social care. These are not abstract figures – they are the reality of the services that depend on the financial information you'll help produce.

This is a role for someone who understands that in local government, every reconciliation you complete, every return you support, and every piece of analysis you produce helps the council direct its resources to where they can make the most difference.

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