Trainee Accountant

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 279364**Salary**:

- £37,237-
**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Apprenticeship**Business area**:

- Finance**Type of role**:

- Finance**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We are offering a fantastic opportunity for a Trainee Accountant to launch their career in Government Finance by gaining relevant experience while studying towards an internationally recognised qualification through our apprenticeship programme.

The Trainee Accountant will join our Financial Reporting and Accounts Team (FRAT) within the Finance Directorate of the Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities. They will gain a professional accountancy qualification through a funded finance apprenticeship whilst gaining relevant experience in financial reporting and accounting.

FRAT is a close team of eight financial accountants responsible for the production of the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts. We take the development and support of our team members very seriously.

While contributing to the production of the account you will have the opportunity to:

- bring new ideas and techniques to a team that has a good record in changing and improving
- develop your knowledge and understanding of financial accounting within a government department
- develop advanced IT skills
- Obtain professional accountancy qualifications

**Job description**:

- Producing evidence backed corrections to the ledgers
- Managing the departments register of non-current assets
- Supporting reconciliation of data between the departments ledger and accounts production system
- Maintaining evidence logs to support audit of the departments financial data
- Working with teams across the Finance Directorate to ensure teams are following best practice and sound financial management.

**Person specification**:
**Essential**
- 4 GCSE passes at grades A-C/grades 9-4 in English and Maths and 2 A Levels
- Either a graduate degree in finance or accounting or experience working in a finance or accounting team
- Good IT skills (Word, Excel)
- Excellent numeracy and literacy
- Interest in studying towards an accounting qualification as part of an apprenticeship
- CCAB part qualified or AAT Level 4 Diploma in Accounting

**Desirable**
- Prior experience using SAP accounting software

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Delivering at Pace
- Developing Self and Others
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Strengths.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

We are for everyone

DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.

Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.
- The assessor won’t be reading your answers sequentially.
- Do not assume that the same assessors will have read all of your answers.
- If talking about something in your first answer, make sure that you write the second answer as if you had not written the first (and so on)

**At sift, we will be assessing**

Working Together - Describe an occasion where you have successfully delivered a piece of work or project in collaboration with others. What was your role and contribution.

Developing Self and Others - Give example(s) of how you have managed your personal development and improvement alongside meeting other goals and work objectives.

Delivering at Pace - Explain a situation where you have had competing work priorities and how this was managed.

There is a 250 word limit per question.

**The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements**:
Behaviour

Experience

Technical

Strength

**In the full campaign we will test the below Success Profile Elements**:
Behaviours: Making Effective Decisions, Working Together, Delivering at Pace, Working Together, Developing Self and Others

Technical: Yes

Strengths: Yes

**HEO Accountant**
- ** The salary for this role will be £37,237 (London)**:
**BENEFITS**:
**Transfers across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018**:
**GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION**:

- London

**SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES**:
Sifting is envisaged to take place from 13th of April with interview dates to be confirm

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