Job Description
Role: Chief Accountant
Organisation: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Location: Stoke-on-Trent | hybrid working
Type: Permanent
Salary: £78,364 - £82,077 (Pay award pending)
About the Chief Accountant opportunity:
Sellick Partnership is pleased to be working in partnership with a well-respected and long-standing Local Authority client in the West Midlands. We are supporting Stoke-on-Trent City Council exclusively with the recruitment for a Chief Accountant to join their finance team on a permanent basis. Stoke-on-Trent City Council is seeking an experienced, strategic Chief Accountant to lead and shape the authority's financial accounting function. This role comes with a competitive salary of between £78,364 - £82,077 and offers hybrid working to suit your work-life balance.
Purpose of the Chief Accountant opportunity:
* To lead, manage and develop all aspects of the councils technical financial accounting requirements.
* To ensure that the council's financial arrangements comply with statutory requirements in terms of accounting, financial control, treasury management and tax compliance.
Key duties of the Chief Accountant will include:
1. Lead and manage the preparation of the annual accounts' closedown process.
2. To provide financial advice to senior officers and elected member...