About Us
Warwickshire County Council is a top performing local authority with a reputation for innovation, efficiency and exceptional financial management. We have recently set our budget for 2026/27 with a balanced Medium-Term Financial Strategy through to 2030/31. In addition, our accounts are up to date, with our 2024/25 Statement of Accounts receiving a clean audit opinion and our latest Value for Money audit awarding us top marks across all indicators, including Financial Sustainability.
We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced finance professional to step into the Senior Accountant – Financial Strategy role within our Strategic Finance team. If you can match our ambition to drive Warwickshire County Council forward through an exciting period for Local Government Finance, we would like to hear from you.
About the Role
This role is critical to continuing our high performance, working with senior leaders at the heart of strategic decision-making to deliver a complex portfolio of work. The ideal candidate will be professional and enthusiastic, and ready for a new challenge to help us take our team and processes to the next level. You will be a qualified accountant with substantial post-qualification experience in a similar role.
Playing a central role in the Finance Service, you’ll join our Financial Strategy team (reporting to the Finance Manager – Financial Strategy) and help co-ordinate and deliver the Council’s annual budget and Medium-Term Financial Strategy (MTFS). You will support the detailed build, refresh and maintenance of the MTFS and medium-term resource plan, including reviewing service spending plans, pressures and savings delivery, and ensuring the organisation stays on top of key corporate funding streams (council tax, business rates and government grant income).
You will provide high-quality strategic and technical financial advice to senior stakeholders, supporting the Head of Strategic Finance, the Director of Finance and Corporate Board on all aspects of financial planning and management. The role includes co-ordinating and producing in-year revenue budget monitoring (including reports to Corporate Board, Cabinet and other committees), producing robust financial tables and reconciliations to underpin reporting, and calculating and agreeing authority-wide inflation allocations (pay and non-pay). You will help ensure revenue budget uploads and reconciliations to corporate control totals are managed effectively, contribute to corporate financial risk and reserves work, and complete statutory returns and other corporate finance tasks relevant to the role.
Key Requirements
We’re looking for a qualified and experienced finance professional, who can:
1. Deliver MTFS refresh and in-year revenue monitoring/reporting outputs.
2. Provide clear strategic advice and influence senior decisions across the Council.
3. Maintain corporate funding and inflation assumptions to support robust forecasts.
4. Maintain strong controls (reconciliations, statutory returns, reserves/risk) and improve processes.
For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification.
Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund'
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
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Additional Information
The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible. We don't want to keep you waiting so we will be starting the initial shortlist and assessment process while the job advert is running. Please check your emails or applicant account via our jobs portal for any updates on your application
Closing Date: Tuesday 26th May
Interview Date: Thursday 18th June
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. Seemore