Senior Financial Accountant

Job description

Job responsibilities

Other responsibilities include:

• Subject matter expert on other reporting and regulatory requirements such as IR35 compliance
• Support the Head of Financial Accounting in accurately accounting for a number of complex technical accounting areas
• Analysing current processes to identify and implement ways to improve processes and financial control
• To undertake other duties and ad-hoc reconciliations as identified by the Head of Financial Accounting which are commensurate with the grade of the post, including at times providing operational support to the wider Financial Accounting team.

Selection Process Details:

Please be aware that we will assess all the essential and desirable criteria.

This vacancy will be assessed using a competency-based framework which will assess your knowledge and experience and skills outlined in the essential criteria.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the essential and desirable criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
• 500 word Statement of Suitability.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

1. Meets all essential criteria
2. Meets some essential criteria
3. Meets no essential criteria

In order to be shortlisted you must meet all and some of the essential criteria listed.

Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on.

• CCAB Qualified or finalist

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment

Please do not exceed 500 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview

You will be invited to a (single) remote interview

Knowledge, experience, skills & abilities will be tested at interview

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Eligibility Criteria

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London). Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Security Clearance Level Requirement.

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard

Salary Information

Market Pay Supplement (MPS) of £5000 is available to be eligible for the MPS, the individual must hold a qualified membership to a CCAB, CIMA or equivalent accountancy body and be in one of the in-scope roles within Finance, Performance, Risk and Assurance.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria 1

Essential

• CCAB Qualified or finalist

Essential Criteria 2

Essential

• Experience of producing statutory accounts for a large and complex organisation

Essential Criteria 3

Essential

• A sound understanding of IFRS and other relevant standards

Essential Criteria 4

Essential

• Proficient with financial reporting software and interrogating data.

Desirable Criteria 1

Desirable

• Experience of accounting and the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM)

Desirable Criteria 2

Desirable

• Experience of managing cash flows for a large organisation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and London (Canary Wharf)

10 South Colonnade

London

E14 5EA

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)