| Salary £40,777 - £46,142 Per annum | Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week | Financial Management Team |
International Sponsorship – this role is not open to international sponsorship
We are currently recruiting…
A dynamic and innovative Management Accountant to work within Financial Management at Lancashire County Council.
Flexible hybrid approach to working
Potential for funding toward relevant professional qualifications
Generous annual leave scheme (26 days rising to 32 days), plus bank holidays and Christmas.
Ability to purchase additional leave
Staff benefits scheme
Employee support scheme
Local Government pension scheme
Salary quoted excludes pending Local Government pay award for 2026/27
The successful candidate will be:
be highly motivated and an effective self-starter.
be innovative and proactive in making improvements and implementing changes.
have strong Excel skills together with the ability to navigate accounting systems and ICT applications.
be a confident communicator, who is able to build strong working relationships with key stakeholders.
have a flexible approach and the ability to plan and prioritise competing workload demands to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
Ideally you will be part or fully CCAB qualified, AAT qualified or qualified by experience.
The role:
Will involve monitoring the finances of various services including savings, reserves and contributing factors towards the Medium-Term Financial Strategy. The various streams of work will require excellent communication skills, as well as an ability to prioritise tasks ensuring that both internal and external deadlines are met.
will include advising and working with your services to enable them to prioritise, make decisions and allocate where funding is needed the most, which can involve challenging conversations with budget holders across the service,
will require the postholder to translate, sometimes complex, financial information into simple understandable language that senior managers and Members will understand. The post holder will ideally show competency when analysing large amounts of data.
will be dealing with ad hoc queries that can present themselves at any given moment. You will be reactive and proactive, demonstrating flexibility, when faced with numerous requests, ensuring they are dealt with swiftly and competently
Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.
We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.
If you want to discuss the role in more detail please contact Jenny Barton (jenny.barton@lancashire.gov.uk).
Closing date 10/07/2026
Potential interviews w/c 20/07/2026
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