Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled finance professional who is passionate about providing excellent financial support to managers across the organisation. If you’re a finance professional looking for a role with variety and challenge, then we’d like to hear from you.

Who we are
Newcastle is an ambitious City, it always has been. Its’ an iconic City with a rich heritage but one that also shapes the future of the region.
Here at Newcastle City Council we have a real passion to improve the lives of residents and visitors in the City through the wide variety of essential public services we deliver and the relationships we influence.

From our City leaders, to every member of our team, we’re all committed to making Newcastle a City that is vibrant and thriving.
We want you to help us make Newcastle a great place to work, visit and live in.

Our values
Everyone who works within one of our valuable public services makes an important contribution to delivering our vision and priorities of the city. How we do things is as important as what we do. In everything we do we strive to embed and live the Councils values

• Proud
• Fair
• Ambitious

What the role will involve?
We are a highly performing finance team that provides excellent support to managers across the organisation. As part of the Financial Accounting team you will be leading on the technical support to financial systems used by the council. You will also be a key member of our ERP implementation team as we implement new systems and processes across the council.

Who are we looking for?
You will need experience of working in a strong finance team. You will ideally have knowledge of local authority accounting regulations and practice and a strong background in financial systems. Experience of ERP implementation in a local government setting is highly desirable.

An awareness of statutory reporting requirements associated with local government and sound communication and organisation skills are essential.

To be successful you will need to illustrate the ability to oversee a technical accounting area and be able to plan and prioritise activities in line with team objectives. The full job person specification lists the essential skills and knowledge we are looking for in this role.

What can we offer you?
If a competitive salary and pension with the option to opt in to an AVC scheme wasn’t enough you will also have

• A generous annual leave allowance.
• The option to buy additional annual leave.
• Access to family friendly policies including maternity and adoption leave, maternity support leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, special leave, leave when caring for a terminally ill dependent, leave for armed forces reservists, disability related special leave, career breaks and paid leave to support the electoral process.
• An enhanced work life balance including agile working, part-year working, compressed hours and flexi time where appropriate.
• Access to numerous salary sacrifice schemes including home electronics, car lease and gym membership.
• Access to physiotherapy, counselling services and eye tests for VDE users through our Occupational Health Service.
• Access to an extensive wellbeing programme including access to a 24 hour employee assistance programme for you and your immediate family.
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders.
• Ability to join staff network groups to meet and share information and raise awareness and include, Black and Minority Ethnic network, Disabled Employee network and LGBT+ network
• Ability to join a trade union.
• Access to a staff travel scheme.
• Access to learning and development opportunities including a comprehensive corporate induction programme, access to e-learning, an annual performance appraisal, upskilling apprenticeships, access to Learning Resource Centres
• A rewarding and most importantly access to a challenging career.
• Additionally, we also offer you retail discounts on hundreds of the UK’s high street and online retailers including travel, dining out, mobile and broadband from the point of receiving your offer of employment

Why work for us?
We strive to be an organisation where equality, diversity and inclusion is part of who we are and how we work and where every member of our team is treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to building an inclusive and supportive workplace where you can bring your whole self to work and succeed in being your best.

Our people deliver amazing services, initiatives and projects to benefit the lives of our residents. They also develop, manage, and maintain the City’s vital infrastructure and public spaces that our societies and communities rely on.

If you want to become an integral part of the team to make a citywide difference for our residents and visitors then we want to hear from you.
For more information on the post, contact [email protected]

The closing date for all applications is 17th April 2026

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