Overview
Senior Accounts Officer – Trainee Surveyor – NN16 8TL
Our Benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role
FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
The Senior Accounts Officer – Trainee Surveyor is responsible for supporting the delivery of professional estate management of the corporate property portfolio. This portfolio is varied and includes several different property types including farmland, headquarter offices, parks, leisure centres, adult care centres, children’s centres, libraries, civic sites and schools.
The Senior Accounts Officer – Trainee Surveyor is required to provide finance support to budget managers and other associated parties, to assist the Finance Business Partner (FBP) in month end and year end reporting under the supervision of the Senior Asset Manager (SAM) to ensure that operations and budgets are being managed effectively enabling compliance with Financial and other regulations. In addition, the role will include training in estate management under the supervision of the surveying team. The post holder will attend, as necessary, occasional meetings of the council and its committees inside of normal working hours.
About you
FOR INTERNAL CANDIDATES ONLY
Ideally you will have a degree and be a member of the Association of Accounting Technicians (or equivalent). Associate membership of the RICS or willingness to study to gain a professional surveying qualification is a must. You will be self-motivated with a minimum of 3 years’ experience working in a public sector property team. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to manage difficult or challenging situations. Most importantly you will be a team player. The postholder must hold a full current UK driving license or be willing to obtain a driving license. The post is flexible and will require both home working and office working to be agreed with the Senior Asset Manager to best support the wider Estates Team.
If you would like to discuss this role then please contact James Ellis Estates@NorthNorthants.Gov.Uk
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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