Work with leading public sector employers while you study CIPFA's Professional Accountancy Qualification

Job details

• Assessment Centre – 16 August 2019
• Final interviews – 20/ 21 August 2019

About the organisation

Cambridgeshire County Council provides a wide range of services to the people of Cambridgeshire - from libraries to residential and nursing homes, fostering services for Looked after Children to pot-holes repairs to roads. It is this wide range of services which makes working for Cambridgeshire so interesting and challenging, with the Professional Finance team providing support to all services across the council.

Cambridgeshire is one of the fastest growing counties in the country, with numerous exciting new developments that offer both challenges and opportunities to the council and its partner organisations across the region. It is also an incredibly varied county, encompassing remote and traditional agricultural areas and 'Silicon Fen' around Cambridge.

In 2020/21 the council’s civic hub will be transferring to a new, purpose-built office in Alconbury Weald.

Organisation culture/environment

The financial management graduate programme at Cambridgeshire County Council has been running for over 30 years and an internal audit-specific stream was added to the programme in 2018. The scheme offers graduates an extraordinary opportunity for a rewarding career in public sector finance and gives you a wide range of experience and opportunities whilst you train to become a qualified accountant and allows you to influence key local government decisions that matter to communities. Trainees will study for the CIPFA Professional Qualification at the CIPFA Education Training Centre in London.

The scheme offers great progression and there are employees at various levels of CCC and partner organisations in the region who have passed through the scheme.

Key responsibilities

Successful applicants will enter either the Financial Management stream, based in Cambridgeshire, or the Internal Audit stream, which has jobs available in Cambridgeshire and Rutland.

Financial Management stream

Over the course of the scheme, you will undertake placements in service finance, corporate finance and internal audit, on a 12-month rotation cycle. Each placement will provide you with a varied mix of day-to-day work and key projects, supporting the needs of your CIPFA studies and your development as a public sector finance professional. Opportunities include:

• supporting a selection of budget managers, providing professional financial advice to maximise their service delivery
• supporting services through budget setting and monitoring, and advising on resource allocation and savings proposals
• gaining a knowledge of technical accounting and working across Public Sector organisations
• developing, completing and reporting on your own Internal Audit assignments to analyse and improve the Council’s control environment.

Internal Audit stream

Trainees will remain based in the audit team, supporting the service in providing independent assurance on the effectiveness of the organisation’s risk management, governance and internal control processes. You will work closely with management to recommend and agree improvements to systems based on your own work, which will include a wide range of assignments across financial audit, contract audit, project management, IT audit and work in social care and fraud investigations. You will also have opportunities to specialise and to work outside of your primary client base, expanding your skillset by undertaking audit work across our audit clients including schools as well as county, district and city councils.

Minimum entry requirements

• 2:1 undergraduate degree in any discipline
• 3 Bs (300 UCAS points) at A-Level (or equivalent qualification) 
• A* - C in Mathematics and English Language at GCSE (or equivalent qualification).

We will also consider offers from those able to demonstrate academic ability up to the standard of a 2:1 undergraduate degree.

Interview/assessment dates

Assessment Centre – 16 August 2019

Final interviews – 20/ 21 August 2019

How to apply

Apply online on the PublicSectorJobsEast website.

Contact Rebecca Bartrum for more information.

Job details

Key responsibilities

As part of a strong and supportive team, working hard towards developing our financial management service, you will grow with us to improve the support provided to senior managers and partners to assist in decision making. 

This will involve working in partnership with colleagues from partner organisations to ensure Doncaster’s resources are used to achieve the greatest possible impact. Key responsibilities include:

• working with budget holders and service managers
• supporting specific project work and service reviews
• managing the annual cycle of preparing and monitoring revenue and capital budgets
• closing the accounts and ensuring savings targets are managed and achieved
• providing high quality financial advice and information to managers and government departments, whilst ensuring the legislative requirements, statutory deadlines, the Council constitution and professional standards are adhered to. 

Knowledge and experience

Interview/assessment dates

TBA

Key contacts

Catherine Anderson, Financial Assurance Manager T: 01302 736611 E: catherine.anderson@doncaster.gov.uk 

Faye Tyas, Head of Financial Management T: 01302 862606, E: faye.tyas@doncaster.gov.uk