Graduate Trainee Accountant
Finance, Audit

Salford City Council
Salford Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton, M27 5AW

Graduate Trainee Accountant
Working Hours: 36 hours per week
Grade: 2B, £19,945 - £21,589
Contract type: Fixed term for 2 years
Closing date: 30th of June, 23:59 

About us 
As one of the key Mayoral priorities, Housing is an important element of Salford’s growth strategy. As a growing city, demand for housing in Salford is increasing whilst homeless presentations continue to rise. Salford City Council is working hard with partners to deliver good quality, affordable housing within the city and we are looking for a talented and hardworking individual to join the team at this exciting and challenging time. 

About you
Your style and approach will reflect our values: you will be passionate about what you do always striving to improve things; valuing and respecting others’ contribution, you will work together to deliver a better service; you will take pride in always getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.

You will be a motivated individual who enjoys solving problems and wants to undertake tasks that will quickly develop their knowledge. You will be determined and hard working and, if studying towards a qualification, you will be able to manage this with the demands of a full time role. You will show initiative and pride in your work and in return will be given the freedom to develop ideas and see them through to implementation whilst still being provided the support from the team.

About the role

Are you looking to:
• Study towards a professional qualification?
• Apply the knowledge you have developed in your studies within a varied role?
• Work on an ambitious project with clear goals and outcomes?
• Be given the opportunity to develop experience within your role?

If not already obtained, we will offer you the opportunity to study towards a CIPFA qualification during your time with us. You will work closely with the strategic finance leads for housing and homelessness to ensure efficient and robust financial reporting arrangements are in place for the service. Furthermore, you will lead on the costing of bespoke housing projects, identifying borrowing requirements, break-even points and analysing the impact on the long term housing revenue account business plan as well as the council’s housing strategy. 
 
About the benefits
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel scheme, pension scheme, salary sacrifice schemes, a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs.

Role Profile.docx

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at https://www.salford.gov.uk/gdpr .
Location
Salford Civic Centre
Vacancy Description
 
Salford City Council
Salford Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton, M27 5AW

Graduate Trainee Accountant
Working Hours: 36 hours per week
Grade: 2B, £19,945 - £21,589
Contract type: Fixed term for 2 years
Closing date: 30th of June, 23:59 

About us 
As one of the key Mayoral priorities, Housing is an important element of Salford’s growth strategy. As a growing city, demand for housing in Salford is increasing whilst homeless presentations continue to rise. Salford City Council is working hard with partners to deliver good quality, affordable housing within the city and we are looking for a talented and hardworking individual to join the team at this exciting and challenging time. 

About you
Your style and approach will reflect our values: you will be passionate about what you do always striving to improve things; valuing and respecting others’ contribution, you will work together to deliver a better service; you will take pride in always getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.

You will be a motivated individual who enjoys solving problems and wants to undertake tasks that will quickly develop their knowledge. You will be determined and hard working and, if studying towards a qualification, you will be able to manage this with the demands of a full time role. You will show initiative and pride in your work and in return will be given the freedom to develop ideas and see them through to implementation whilst still being provided the support from the team.

About the role

Are you looking to:
• Study towards a professional qualification?
• Apply the knowledge you have developed in your studies within a varied role?
• Work on an ambitious project with clear goals and outcomes?
• Be given the opportunity to develop experience within your role?

If not already obtained, we will offer you the opportunity to study towards a CIPFA qualification during your time with us. You will work closely with the strategic finance leads for housing and homelessness to ensure efficient and robust financial reporting arrangements are in place for the service. Furthermore, you will lead on the costing of bespoke housing projects, identifying borrowing requirements, break-even points and analysing the impact on the long term housing revenue account business plan as well as the council’s housing strategy. 
 
About the benefits
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel scheme, pension scheme, salary sacrifice schemes, a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs.

Role Profile.docx

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at https://www.salford.gov.uk/gdpr .