C2/SEO System Accountant

at  Insolvency Service

JOB SUMMARY

Do you have a passion for finance and a desire to make a real impact to shape a modern, efficient and effective public service?
Join the Finance, Commercial, Sustainability and Property Directorate (FCSP) at the Insolvency Service!
The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency, playing a crucial role in supporting businesses and individuals facing financial difficulty. We offer a supportive and inclusive environment where you can develop your expertise and contribute to the Agency’s success.
This exciting new role sits within the System Accounting team, who work to support changes to the Agency’s finance systems, and to support with live issues or incidents affecting these systems.
This C2/SEO System Accountant role is a great opportunity to help improve and assure financial systems in the Insolvency Service, ensuring that Finance and operational teams can work efficiently and safely to deliver great service to the public.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking to recruit a qualified or part-qualified System Accountant in our Finance, Commercial, Sustainability and Property directorate.
The role will report to the Head of System Accounting within the Core Finance team and will work closely with other functional areas within Finance, the wider Agency and across Government, requiring you to build a network of contacts to understand, improve and assure finance systems and processes.
This new role will focus on improvements to the Redundancy Payments Service (RPS) system landscape. RPS is a key area of the Agency’s operations, providing support for thousands of people each year at a time when they may be at their most financially vulnerable due to redundancy.
The role offers exposure at senior levels, and the opportunity to work with multi-disciplinary projects.
The FCSP directorate has a healthy learning and development culture, and we are committed to supporting our staff develop the skills and experience to help progress their careers.

QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidate will hold a recognised Professional Accountancy qualification (such as ACA, ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA), or they should be working towards qualification with an expected completion date within 2 years of taking up this post (this will be a contractual obligation, with full funding provided).

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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RESPONSIBILITIES

As a C2/SEO System Accountant, focussing on RPS, you will:

• lead Finance engagement with an upcoming project to improve the RPS system environment, as subject-matter expert for the relevant Finance systems
• provide functional oversight of ongoing use, development and utilisation of Finance systems related to RPS
• lead on internal and external audit queries regarding RPS systems where these interact with financial systems
• assure RPS business and system changes, working closely with colleagues across the Agency to ensure future changes align to relevant accounting standards, best practice and Government Functional Standards, protecting the Agency’s ability to meet statutory accounting and control obligations and best practice in financial reporting and insight
• identify and support opportunities for improvement, including scoping RPS requirements for future financial systems, testing and change impacting
• engage with system support teams to understand any live issues and effectively collate and communicate Finance impacts to stakeholders
• report to the Head of System Accounting on matters relating to finance systems, and make recommendations for the endorsement of plans relating to these systems
• support the Head of System Accounting with demand management, capacity planning and relevant training & guidance across the System Accounting team, the wider Finance function and the Agency as relevant

We want you to have a good work-life balance and want to support you in all that you do, so we offer a great benefits package including:

• flexible working arrangements and flexi-time
• full time new entrants to the Civil Service and those Civil Servants on modernised terms and conditions will be entitled to 25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• in addition to this you are entitled to 8 public/bank holidays plus an additional day of privilege leave
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• 5 days paid leave for learning and development
• 5 days paid for volunteering
• a Cycle to work scheme
• staff have access to an employee assistance programme, Workplace Wellness, for confidential, independent support and advice during difficult times in either their professional or personal life
• a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of at least 28.97