10
roles across the finance team
8
service areas
2 grades
Grade 14 and Grade
17
LGPS
pension scheme
Help shape the future of London's largest borough
Croydon is one of London's most diverse, ambitious and dynamic boroughs. With a renewed focus on growth, regeneration, financial sustainability and delivering excellent services, we are looking for exceptional colleagues to help drive the next phase of our improvement.
In Strategic Finance, you will be at the centre of the organisation, working with the Corporate Management Team, Directors and Heads of Service to influence decision-making and ensure the council is well positioned to respond to the opportunities and challenges facing local government.
Real impact
Shape the council's journey back to financial sustainability
Breadth
Revenue, capital, HRA and housing companies
Vacancies
Ten roles across two grades and eight service areas.
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Principal Accountant x7
Grade 14
£54,927 to £57,150 per annum
Business partner to major services, from social care and education to housing, or lead on closing and reporting.
Teams
Adult Social Care and Health
Education (x2)
Assistant Chief Executive & Resources
Housing General Fund (Homelessness)
Housing Revenue Account (HRA)
Chief Accountant's Team (Closing & Reporting)
Team overviews
Find out more about each team. Click any box to read more.
Finance Manager roles
Resources
This role will lead business partnering to: • Property, Procurement and Capital: including support to the asset disposal programme, rental income streams and capital development in the borough. • Croydon Technology Service: change and improvement to IT services, including greater use of AI and other digital technologies. • Finance: Payments, Revenues, Benefits and Debt (including the Collection Fund and Housing Benefits). • Legal and Democratic Services. • Internal Audit, Counter-Fraud and Insurance services.
Chief Accountant's Team (Training & Improvements)
This role will encompass: • Training: provision of training for service and finance staff on technical accounting requirements and the effective use of financial systems. • Improvements: driving positive change across the council, supporting the transformation and digitalisation programme, and the streamlining of processes and task automation. This includes ensuring that financial systems comply with financial reporting requirements and that the reporting system itself is a sound financial control environment. Leading on improvements in response to internal and external audit recommendations, and improvements to support the timely completion and review of reconciliations, including bank accounts, system interfaces and control accounts. • Guidance: production and regular updating of guidance notes, templates and intranet pages to ensure best practice is followed by finance and non-finance staff.
Housing Companies
This role will encompass: • Leading on the reporting and accounting treatments for companies and charities related to the council. • Ensuring compliance with the accounting code of practice, HMRC regulations, company legislation and regulatory duties. • Commercial activities to maximise value for money through a commercial focus on contract management and increasing the supply of high-quality accommodation in the borough. This includes the innovative use of housing companies to support discharge of homelessness duties. • Identifying opportunities for using capital investment to improve housing supply and options, including adaptations to existing properties.
Principal Accountant roles
Adult Social Care and Health
This role will provide business partnering to: • Operational services: Adult Social Care is the largest budget area of the council, requiring effective management of care package costs, staffing costs and income. This includes the need for accurate forecasting of the impact of the changing demography of the local population. • Partnership working: joint working with our partners in health and networks across London and the country. • Commissioning: contract management and market shaping to ensure appropriate, cost-effective support to our adult social care service users. • Change and improvement: a major priority for the service is making improvements to how services are delivered, in collaboration with our strategic delivery partner.
Education (x2)
This role will provide business partnering to: • Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND): High Needs Block (Dedicated Schools Grant), including provision for children and young people for whom the council maintains an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan, Youth Disability Services and Croydon Sensory Support Services. • Early Years, School Place Planning and Admissions: ensuring sufficient, accessible school places and early years provision across the borough; delivery of the council's Education Estates Strategy; ensuring sufficient, flexible and accessible childcare provision. • Access to Education: improving access to education, training and employment for children and young people; driving educational excellence across the borough, including through traded support services; providing professional expertise to raise standards and improve governance. • Family Hubs, Children's Centres and Parenting: development and delivery of evidence-based parenting, parent-infant relationship and school readiness services through Croydon's Best Start in Life early years teams.
Assistant Chief Executive & Resources
This role will provide business partnering to areas such as: • Change and Improvement, including Customer Experience. • Policy, Programmes, Performance and Electoral Services. • Human Resources, IT, Legal and Democratic Services. • Finance, Internal Audit, Counter-Fraud and Insurance services. • Property, Procurement and Capital.
Housing General Fund (Homelessmess)
This role will provide business partnering to: • Operational services: the Housing General Fund service manages the council's temporary accommodation and homelessness prevention duties. This requires effective management and monitoring of highly volatile demand services, and accurate forecasting of demographic and market pressures. • Change and improvement: a major priority for the service is making improvements to how services are delivered and ensuring that the service is meeting changing regulatory duties. • Joint working: partnership working with housing providers across London, focused on homelessness prevention and tackling rough sleeping. • Commercial activities: maximising value for money through a commercial focus on contract management and increasing the supply of high-quality accommodation in the borough. This includes the innovative use of housing companies to support discharge of homelessness duties. • Capital investment: identifying opportunities for using capital investment to improve housing supply and options, including adaptations to existing properties.
Housing Revenue Account (HRA)
This role will provide business partnering to: • Operational services: the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) manages the council's social housing landlord function and services to tenants. • Change and improvement: a major priority for the service is making improvements in response to the views and priorities of our social housing tenants, and ensuring that the council is meeting changing regulatory duties. • Joint working: partnership working with tenants and leaseholders in Croydon and service providers across the wider region, to improve service quality and meet regulatory social housing standards. • Commercial activities: maximising value for money through a commercial focus on contract management and increasing the quality of services, including repairs and maintenance. • Asset Management Strategy: delivery of the HRA Business Plan, including opportunities for capital investment and regeneration to improve social housing in the borough.
Chief Accountant's Team (Closing & Reporting)
This role will encompass: • Budget monitoring: consolidation and production of revenue and capital financial performance reports for Cabinet, Corporate Management Team and stakeholders. • External reporting: consolidation and submission for external requirements such as the revenue estimate, revenue outturn and capital returns. • Annual accounts: ensuring the council's final accounts are produced on time and meet the required legislative standards, and maintaining an open and positive relationship with the external auditor. Reporting on audit progress, and providing other updates, to the Audit & Governance Committee. • Accounting policies and practice: developing and maintaining procedures to meet new accounting requirements and the changing needs of the council. • Proper accounting practices: ensuring compliance with best practice guidance, including timely and accurate reconciliation of the Collection Fund, government grants and use of reserves.
A welcome from Conrad Hall and Allister Bannin
Corporate Director of Resources (Section 151 Officer) and Director of Finance (Deputy Section 151 Officer)
Talk to us
For a confidential conversation about any of these roles, contact Jack or Robert.
