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Scottish Government Recruitment • Glasgow, United Kingdom • via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
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Are you an experienced IT leader with advanced database administration skills? We're looking for a Lead Application Operations Engineer who brings strong leadership, collective ownership, collaborative spirit, and a motivation to drive improvement.

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UK Government - Disclosure Barring Service


Senior Financial Accountant
UK Government - Disclosure Barring Service • Darlington, United Kingdom • via Glassdoor
12 days ago
£38.7K–£43.3K a year
Full–time
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Senior Financial Accountant

Location: Liverpool/Darlington. Can work remotely but must attend office based on business needs

Job Purpose:

As the Senior Financial Accountant, your role will be to support and develop the Financial Accounts team, providing guidance and support in establishing a controls-based environment, to provide advice, and develop policies, to improve compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations, and other government financial reporting requirements.

You will also be responsible for supporting the delivery of an efficient, effective and high-quality professional service meeting all reporting requirements.

Key Responsibilities:
• Management and development of the Financial Accounts team
• Leading the DBS monthly accounting process
• Preparing the interim and year end DBS financial statements ensuring compliance with relevant legislation
• Providing technical and clear advice on the application of accounting standards, the development of accounting policies, and tax/financial control issues
• Developing, reviewing and enhancing key models critical for year-end accounting purposes
• Providing input into, or producing statutory and civil service wide reports such as the Fraud and Error return
• Developing, maintaining and assuring the financial controls utilised throughout the DBS
• Managing DBS banking arrangements, including the supporting the management of cash flow
• Overseeing the stewardship of DBS requisitioning, working with business areas to minimise the number of open purchase orders and to support prompt payment of invoices
• Overseeing the fixed asset recording process
• Liaising with internal and external auditors
• Identifying process and system improvements
• Day to day management of relevant commercial contracts

About you:

To be successful in this role you will have:
• Experience within a Financial Accountant role and the ability to draw upon practicable experience of managing multiple deliverables to tight timescales whilst implementing financial controls
• Proven ability to communicate matters to a non-financial audience and to build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels and experience of managing, coaching and developing a team.
• The ability to lead the annual report and accounts production process and support the external audit process
• Sound knowledge of latest accounting standards and developing financial policies, frameworks and procedures

Qualifications/Technical Ability

You must hold an accounting qualification from a recognised CCAB accountancy body or CIMA, or be part-qualified or progressing towards the achievement of this

Successful candidates must meet BPSS  security requirements before they can be appointed.

What you will get in Return

Alongside your salary of £38,700 - £43,300 DBS contributes 28.+7% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. 

In addition, the DBS offers a number of excellent benefits for its employees. These can include:
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption schemes (after a qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible working opportunities
• Eyecare voucher scheme
• Occupational Health Service including referrals for counselling and physiotherapy
• 24/7 Counselling and Wellbeing Service
• Dental insurance policy benefit
• Car parking/cycle to work scheme
• Free flu jabs
• Reward recognition scheme
• 5 days per year for learning and development

Additionally, an Accountancy Allowance is applicable for individuals who are part or fully qualified of up to a maximum of £4,500, depending on the level of progression achieved through the professional accountancy qualification. This allowance is non-consolidated.

About the Department:

DBS was established under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 on 1 December 2012, operating from two sites, Liverpool and Darlington. We operate on behalf of government delivering Disclosure functions in England, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, and Barring functions for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Read more