[Hiring] Technical Accountant Closedown Review @Spinwell Global

Role Description

Spinwell is recruiting for a Technical Accountant Closedown Review for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

• Existing revenue closedown processes and procedures
• Existing capital closedown processes and procedures
• Overall ownership and leadership of the closedown process
• Roles, responsibilities and accountability across the finance team
• Previous years' performance in delivering final accounts within statutory deadlines
• Closedown timetables and allocation of workload
• Technical accounting capability and capacity within the team
• Closedown team structure, knowledge and experience
• Finance system and technical issues impacting accounts production
• Quality, sign-off procedures and consistency of working papers
• Filing structures and document management arrangements
• Maintenance of key control accounts and balance sheet reconciliations throughout the financial year
• Capital accounting processes and maintenance of the Fixed Asset Register
• Lessons learned from previous closedowns both internally and across the wider local government sector
• Issues identified by Internal Audit and External Audit
• Findings arising from the independent review of Bromsgrove District Council's 2025/26 unaudited Statement of Accounts
• Processes used to extract financial information from the finance system for accounts production
• Data quality, system access and availability of information
• Spreadsheet controls and master workbook version control
• Identification and treatment of prior year adjustments
• Hard close procedures and controls over general ledger amendments
• Audit trails for journals and late adjustments
• Year-end accruals processes
• Accounting treatment and coding of grants
• Review and clearance of historic commitments
• Budget monitoring arrangements, virements, approvals and audit trails
• Timely completion of asset valuations and revaluations
• Pension accounting arrangements and timeliness of actuarial information
• Timely receipt of third-party information required for accounts production
• Governance and frequency of closedown meetings
• Compliance with the CIPFA Code of Practice
• Completion and quality assurance of the CIPFA Disclosure Checklist
• Opportunities to streamline and modernise accounts production
• Strengthening balance sheet assurance arrangements
• Improving preparedness for external audit
• Management oversight, review and assurance processes

Qualifications

• Fully qualified CCAB accountants (CIPFA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Minimum of five years' post-qualification experience
• Extensive Local Government finance experience
• Significant year-end closedown experience
• Production and review of Statements of Accounts
• Strong technical accounting knowledge within a local authority environment
• Experience of capital accounting, fixed assets and balance sheet management
• Experience working with external auditors and resolving audit queries
• Strong understanding of the CIPFA Code of Practice and local authority accounting requirements
• Ability to review existing processes, identify improvements and implement best practice
• Experience operating at, or supporting, Chief Accountant level

Benefits

• Competitive pay rate
• Fully remote working
• Opportunity to work within the public sector

Company Description

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