About The Role
Role: Graduate Trainee Management / Financial Accountant
Location: Town Hall, Chorley
Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week) / Permanent
Salary: £31,537 - £33,699
Closing Date: 28 September 2025
A fantastic opportunity for career progression with an enthusiastic team in Chorley and South Ribble. This role offers the chance to work across both the Management Accounts and Financial Accounts functions of the team and subsequently develop a range of high level technical skills.
What you’ll be getting up to
* Working with the Financial Accounts team to provide treasury management, financial and corporate accounting services to two councils and their subsidiary companies.
* Supporting the delivery of the Statement of Accounts for both councils and their subsidiary companies.
* Preparing and presenting management accounting reports for budget holders.
* Contributing to the development of corporate and service strategies.
Who we’re looking for
* Willingness to learn and develop new skills.
* Ability to communicate confidently and effectively.
* Experience of working in a team to deliver outcomes.
* Experience of completing projects to a defined deadline.
* Strong IT skills.
Our Benefits
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown)
* Hybrid/agile working from day one
* Local Government pension
* Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
* Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
* Volunteering days
* Free parking
Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We’re always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you’re interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the “Contact Us” form on our careers website.
About Us
Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we’re always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.
Working Together
We share a number of our services with South Ribble Borough Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.
Additional information
Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.
Equal Opportunities
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.
We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.
If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
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