Assistant Financial Accountant

The College of Policing is once again exclusively partnering with Robertson Bell, this time in our search for an Assistant Financial Accountant to join our team on a permanent basis. The College of Policing is the professional body for the police service in England and Wales who work to share knowledge and good practice, set standards, and support professional development for police officers and staff.

This role has been newly created to add additional resource to our Financial Accounting Team. Reporting into the Financial Accountant, this role will undertake and maintain timely and accurate fixed asset postings, corporate adjustments and balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring non-current and cash assets are recorded in accordance with the College’s accounting policies. 

The organisation:

About 800 people work for the College of Policing across England and Wales. Although we're a small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.  We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive.

This role offers a full-time opportunity and it will be based out of our headquarters in Ryton-on-Dunsmore (CV8 3EN). We offer an extensive flexible-working policy (including up to three days per week from home), employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers’ network for equality and inclusion membership (ENEI silver award winners), and status as a disability confident leader means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

The key duties of this Assistant Financial Accountant will be:

• Record and process additions, capitalisations, revaluations, and disposals of fixed assets in a timely fashion.
• Monitor the progress of assets under construction, ensuring that assets are correctly capitalised when construction is completed, and appropriate depreciation is charged.
• Maintain the fixed assets register and record revaluations, impairments and indexations.
• Review capital transactions and ensure that they are allocated appropriately, identify misclassified capital/resource spend and take appropriate corrective action.
• Completing monthly reconciliations of the bank and other balance sheet items.
• Preparing and entering journals into the system.
• Assist with obtaining information for auditors and their queries.

The successful candidate will have:

• Started working towards a CCAB or AAT qualification, or be qualified by experience.
• A demonstrable understanding and application of sound principles of financial accounting, especially double entry bookkeeping.
• Ideally, previous experience of UK government accounting and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to work to deadlines, prioritise tasks and keep others updated.
• Evidence of being able to work as part of a team and demonstrate flexibility in working towards team objectives.
• Ideally, experience of fixed asset accounting.

The closing date for applications will be on Sunday 28^th July, with first stage interviews due to take place the week commencing the 5^th August. Applications will be under continuous review before this date so please submit your CV to our exclusive search agent Robertson Bell ASAP to ensure that you are considered.