Accountant - EDN27617

Job Description

Corporate Services

Accountant
Waverley Court

Salary: £42,717 - £50,550
Hours: 36 per week

The City of Edinburgh Council is looking for two Accountants to work on the management, development and maintenance of the Council’s core financial management systems and financial reporting portfolio.

You will work within the Council’s Financial Systems team, supporting and maintaining mainly either:
(i) purchasing-related systems and processes, including modules of the Oracle R12 eBusiness Suite: iProcurement; Purchasing; iSupplier; System Administration; Workflow; Enterprise Command Centre; or
(ii) a suite of financial and management reports, using SQL coding.

You will be an experienced professional, able to contribute to the delivery of excellent client services, staff development and continuous service improvement. Your professional expertise should support development and maintenance of financial systems, including the regular patching of the Oracle eBusiness Suite, and associated reports.

You will be able to build effective relationships to work collaboratively and constructively with the team, service managers and partners to achieve agreed outcomes. You will work closely with other members of the Finance team, senior managers and external agencies providing expert professional technical advice ensuring the highest standards of client service, professional practice and financial governance are achieved.

A Standard Disclosure is required for this post.

You will be a key member of a strong and experienced team. Working with us means you will benefit from:

• 27 days of paid leave, plus of 6 public holidays, per year (with an increase of 5 days of paid leave after five years’ reckonable service).
• A career average local government pension scheme with generous employer contributions.
• Paid sickness absence, health and wellbeing support and other family friendly policies.
• Salary advances on public transport season tickets.
• Access to corporate discounts in shops, cinemas and other leisure venues.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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