Cornwall Council Jobs – Accounting Technician

This role provides an opportunity to join the Controls Team as an Accounting Technician.

The Controls Team are responsible for ensuring the Council’s key finance processes and banking activities are maintained, controlled and developed in line with the Council’s priorities and objectives.

The role will provide financial support and advice to specific areas of activity. This support will include financial information to assist budgetary control, budget setting and the closure of accounts as well as the maintenance of accounts and accounting information. The team ensures that reconciliations, journals and adhoc reporting requirements are completed on time so that underlying data can be relied upon for reporting and financial control.

Working through the Business Reporting Managers and as part of a pooled function the role will assist in the preparation of the detailed financial plans, budgets and forecasts of income and expenditure to corporate standards.

The role will provide support to the Council’s Business Reporting Managers, Accountants and Controls Team.

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Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g. race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

Whilst the location/work-base for this role has been specified our evolving ways of working means that the role may require you to also work remotely (e.g. from home/other locations). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.

We’re open to discussions about flexible working.