Accountant

Job Title: Accountant

Salary: £38,673 - £41,868

Location: Flexible – any Care Inspectorate office

Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

About us

We are the national regulator and scrutiny body responsible for providing assurance and protection for people who experience care services, their families, carers and the wider public, as well as supporting delivery partners to improve the quality of care for people in Scotland. Our vision is that people across Scotland experience high quality care that meets their needs, rights and choices.

We are a scrutiny body that supports improvement. We inspect individual care services and we also work with other scrutiny bodies to inspect the social care and social work services people are experiencing in their local areas.

About the role

We have a permanent vacancy for an Accountant within our busy Finance and Corporate Governance department, within the Accounting Team, which is a shared service between the Care Inspectorate and Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).

Working in a busy team you will:

• lead, manage and provide professional advice to the accounting team
• compile financial information and support budget managers in the management of their budgets
• prepare monthly budget monitoring reports for senior managers and the Board as required
• help compile the Care Inspectorate annual budgets
• assist in the production of the Care Inspectorate statutory annual accounts
• review monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• compile information for financial or statistical returns
• play a key role in ensuring resources are managed as efficiently and effectively as possible
• train and develop finance and non-finance staff.
• assist in other financial activities, such as monthly payroll and cashflow.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will ideally have the following:

• a degree level qualification
• membership of the Association of Accounting Technicians or part qualification with a Committee of Consultative Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) or equivalent.
• strong financial management experience with the ability to generate, identify and interrogate financial data to support decision making.
• strong analytical skills with the ability to analyse complex data, identify trends and make decisions based on findings.
• organisational skills helping you to prioritise and manage your own workload.
• be a strong communicator and be able to demonstrate your commitment to excellent customer service.
• be able to work on your own initiative and with minimal supervision.
• excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• be able to work flexibly as part of a team.
• experience of line management including the training and development of team members.

Next steps

You’ll find more information in the job profile and person specification.

If you would like to have an informal chat regarding this role, please contact Gillian Berry, Accounting and Procurement Manager, on tel: 01382 207140 or via e-mail: gillian.berry@careinspectorate.gov.scot. Alternatively, you can contact Kenny Dick, Head of Finance and Corporate Governance, on tel: 01382 207119 or via email: kenny.dick@careinspectorate.gov.scot.

If you believe that you are a suitable candidate for this post, please download and complete an application form and submit it by email to recruitment@careinspectorate.gov.scot by 8am on Monday 20 September 2021.