Chief Accountant

Job Summary

Job Role Title: Chief Accountant

Salary: I £48,710 – £52,805 + 10% market rate supplement

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full time

Number of hours per week: 37 hours per week

Job Share: No

Closing date: 23:59 4 June 2025

Job Advert Text

Join Our Team at Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service!

Are you a finance professional looking for a rewarding career with a dynamic and community-focused organisation? Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service is seeking talented individuals.

Leicestershire Fire & Rescue Service (LFRS) provides a wide range of services covering more than 979 square miles, including both urban and rural communities with a population of approximately 1.1 million. With 20 strategically placed fire stations, our purpose is Safer People, Safer Places in both our communities and our workplaces.

Benefits you will receive:

•    Competitive salary

•    Flexible working

•    Generous leave entitlement plus public holidays

•    Full support for ongoing professional development

•    On-site gym facilities

•    Free onsite parking

•    Access to an emergency services “Blue Light” discount card

•    Use of our in-house occupational health unit, which includes fitness support

•    Access to the Service’s 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

•    Public sector pension (subject to pension scheme rules). You will automatically be enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), which is a tax-approved, defined-benefit occupational pension scheme. Your contributions are based on your earnings, and you can choose from different income options when you retire.

Hybrid working may be considered for this role.

Closing date: 23:59 4 June 2025

Interview and test date: w/c 12 June 2025 over a 3-week period

A market rate supplement of 10% has been awarded for this role and will remain subject to periodic review.

Job Objectives

Reporting to the S112 Officer/Treasurer, your role will be to provide technical leadership and expertise in local government finance for your three teams, Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance and Exchequer Services.

Your key responsibilities will include providing high quality financial services and advice to senior stakeholders and leading the financial operations of the Service, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.

You will lead key activity in the service including final accounts, budget setting, budget monitoring, capital accounting, financial systems, treasury management, pensions and exchequer services.

Skills Required

You will be CCAB qualified and a confident communicator who is able to foster great working relationships with a flexible approach and the ability to adapt to changing priorities.

Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Furthermore, we want to create a work environment where everyone feels safe, can be themselves and can perform their roles to the best of their abilities. We have signed up with a number of nationally recognised organisations that promote equality, diversity and inclusion and we are working with them to help us achieve our objectives. These organisations include:

• Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion
• Department of Works and Pension’s Disability Confident scheme
• British Sign Language Charter
• Asian Fire Service Association (AFSA)

Pension Considerations

Please note that it is your personal responsibility to check whether by applying/accepting this position it would result in any Annual Allowance or Lifetime Allowance implications. A breach in the Annual Allowance threshold could result in a Tax charge. A breach in the Lifetime Allowance threshold will result in a Tax charge.  Further information on Annual Allowance and Lifetime Allowance can be obtained from our Pensions team.

Sponsorship

Please take note that Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.