Senior Accountant

Job Details:

• Salary range: £42,861 - £51,663 per annum
• Work location: 145 King Street, London, W6 9JT/Hybrid
• Hours per week: 36
• Contract type: Permanent
• Closing date: 8th May 2025
• Interview Date: w/c 12th May

About the role:

We are a small, friendly and ambitious local authority. Adult Social Care is important to the Council and has benefitted from considerable investment. We believe in supporting and developing our staff to do the best job to make a positive difference with people. We are committed to high quality leadership, management and supervision and valuing our staff through ongoing career development. We have great CPD opportunities, and the Get Ahead programme can support your career aspirations. We value our staff, and your wellbeing is important - we have hybrid working, regular ASC staff forums and staff groups across the council e.g. disability and EDI groups and will be introducing Wellbeing days for Social Worker posts. We offer free tea and coffee in all our offices and local/national discounts for staff.

We are recruiting a Senior Accountant in the Social Care Finance Department. The role will be responsible for overseeing and managing the Home Care and Direct Payments budgets of £31.5m in Adults Social Care and their key financial processes, including budget setting, in-year monitoring and closure of accounts. Ensure significant issues are raised with senior management with recommendations for corrective action. To advise services and managers on self-service, financial governance and delegations and ensure adherence to the Council’s financial regulations. To assist in the provision of professional financial advice and analysis to support the Council’s strategic plans and Medium-Term Financial Strategy process. Provide financial modelling on Home Care when the service is retendered and support the department on the reforms plans within ASC.

We have a hybrid working model and staff will be supported to do this with mobile IT equipment and hot desk facilities in all offices across the borough. Professional, practice-based supervision will be provided.

Our mission is to be the best council. To do this we need the best people to help build our vision. If you’re looking to develop your career in a fast-paced, professional environment whilst making a difference, then we look forward to hearing from you. This is a really exciting opportunity for anyone interested in progressing a career in finance. If you are driven, enthusiastic, and looking for a rewarding working environment, we would love to hear from you.

This post requires a DBS Enhanced Check with Adults’ Barred List. Please refer to the role profile for more information.

Our People Values:

• We are caring: We care about our borough and doing things well. We focus on standards and continuous improvement; learning from our mistakes and celebrating success.
• We are collaborators: We work together for a better society. We work with our residents, businesses, schools, third sector and others for better outcomes for everyone.
• We are driven: We will only settle for the very best. We seek to continually improve and put our residents, customers and businesses at the heart of everything we do.

Our commitment to you: At H&F you will have access to a comprehensive total reward package as well as joining a flexible working employer and as such all staff can request flexible working. We believe an inclusive workplace is about the visibility and representation of our local diverse community - it is about open and transparent decision making co-produced with staff and residents. It is about respect for diversity and a shared identity that seeks to encourage fair and transparent recruitment, retention, and career progression. We take a proactive approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion so that it is part of the fabric of the Council with a shared understanding of the role all colleagues play in realising the inclusivity of the workplace. At H&F, our workplace ensures that everybody has equitable access to opportunities.

In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equitable access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification (GOQ) applies.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

Asking for Adjustments: We are committed to removing barriers in the workplace and this includes adjustments throughout the recruitment process. If you would like to discuss any adjustments or request the application form in a different format, please contact us at resourcing-peopleandtalent@lbhf.gov.uk or by post to The Town Hall, King Street, Hammersmith W6 9JU.

Hammersmith & Fulham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

Corporate Equalities Employment Policy: In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification (GOQ) applies. We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

Apply Link: Career Opportunities: Senior Accountant LBHF620903 (620903)

Closing Date: May 8th 2025