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We're looking for a detail-oriented and customer focussed individual to join our Finance team. You will be part of a fantastic team that delivers effective finance support to services across both Chorley and South Ribble Borough Councils as part of a shared financial services team. You'll have experience with transactional accounts processes and have experience with systems.
You will be based at Chorley Council’s Town Hall but may also work from South Ribble Borough Council’s Civic Centre in Leyland.
- Supporting Management Accountants to compile revenue and capital budgets.
Working with Management Accountants to prepare management accounting reports, this will require working with colleagues on the team to aid production of the accounts.
Support the Management Accountants in maintaining a reconciled establishment with HR
Assist in completing journals and other reconciliations where required across the management accounting team.
Assisting Management Accountants to provide timely and accurate responses to Freedom of Information queries
Supporting the finance systems team to maintain the financial management system
Supporting the Management Accounts team by providing transactional support such as purchase order raising and debtors invoices
Responding to external audit queries including doing walkthroughs of the system.
At financial year end working closely with Management Accountants to ensure a timely and accurate close-down of the revenue and capital accounts in strict accordance with statutory requirements.
Help to close, carry forward and amend purchase orders at year-end.
- You'll have experience of working with financial and management information systems
- You'll also have experience of management accounting procedures and transactional accounting processes
- You'll be someone who can deliver first-class customer service and works well in a team
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown)
- Hybrid/agile working from day one
- Local Government pension
- Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
- Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
- Volunteering days
- Free parking
About Us
Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we’re always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.
Working Together
We share a number of our services with South Ribble Borough Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back-end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.
Additional information
Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.
Equal Opportunities
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.
We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.
If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
