Job Description

Greater Manchester Police are recruiting experienced fully qualified Full and Part time Business Accountants into its newly restructured Finance Branch to provide a high quality, comprehensive financial service that meets customer requirements and enables the Force to achieve its strategic and operational objectives. This exciting opportunity will allow you to play a key part in supporting our officers and staff across a number of business areas within the Financial Operations and Strategic Finance and Compliance teams where you will ensure the delivery of an efficient and effective strategic accounting service to all stakeholders.

To apply for this role, you must be a member of a Professional Institute and Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB), qualified with significant post qualification experience in a large complex organisation.
The Finance branch is a fast paced environment and it is essential that you are able to maintain a strategic overview of all financial activity within your assigned area of business and have a proven ability to prioritise work effectively to meet a number of deadlines.

A team player with excellent communication and engagement skills with colleagues and customers at all levels, you must also have experience of working in a devolved financial management environment, attending regular meetings with budget/stakeholders to provide advice and discuss performance. Additionally, you must be able to demonstrate that you have and maintain a knowledge of up to date accounting principles and financial governance and you must be experienced in the use of computerised financial systems and spreadsheets if you are to be successful in your application.

If you feel you possess the necessary skills, qualifications, and attributes to join our team we look forward to hearing from you.

Should you be successful in your application benefits will include: A competitive salary,(pay award pending) payment of annual professional subscription, access to an excellent public sector pension scheme, generous annual leave entitlement and free parking at GMP Central Park Complex(subject to availability) In addition, this post is supported by GMP\'s agile working principles.

PLEASE NOTE: the job description will be subject to consultation and may change.

Closing Date

16 Oct 2023

Recruitment Team Contact

Other Information

Please refer to the attached for further details regarding the skills required to do this role. The has been signposted to indicate at which stage of the process each criteria will be tested.

Due to the Equality Act (2010) the criteria surrounding sickness absence will not be checked until the conditional offer stage of the recruitment process, this is after the interview stage of the full recruitment process. With this in mind all candidates need to ensure that they have a good attendance record for the last 2 years for Staff and officers and for 12 months for apprentices.

The Equality Act 2010 makes it unlawful to discriminate against a disabled person in all areas of employment, including recruitment. The Police Service welcomes people with disabilities and will do its best to make reasonable adjustments to the working arrangements and/ or the working environment providing it is possible to do so.

If you have a disability and you require support with your application, please let us know so we can consider and support you with any reasonable adjustments you may require. If you need any support completing this application please contact gmprecruitment@gmp.police.uk and the recruitment team will be happy to assist.

Should you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know during the selection process.

Please note, all of our communication will be sent to you via the e-mail address you provide on your application form, therefore please ensure noreply@gmp-recruitment.co.uk is in your mail safe senders / safe recipients list to prevent our e-mails going into your junk mail.

Policing values are enshrined in the Code of Ethics (a copy of which can be found at https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Ethics/Ethics-home/Documents/Code_of_Ethics.pdf Every person serving with the police service needs to adhere to these standards of professional behaviour. As an applicant to Greater Manchester Police, we expect that you will hold views and attitudes in line with the Code; that if you are successful in your application you will uphold the Code of Ethics by displaying the behaviours that the Code sets out; and that you will report any conduct of others that falls short of those standards. Any failure or apparent failure to uphold the Code of Ethics will be taken seriously. It will be looked into and in cases involving serious and/or repeated failings, criminal and/or misconduct proceedings may follow. With that in mind, you are reminded that you must not share any information relating to the recruitment and assessment process. Sharing of such information could result in criminal and/or misconduct proceedings.

To be eligible for appointment as a member of police staff, you must be a British citizen or a citizen of a country that is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland. Commonwealth citizens and foreign nationals are also eligible but only if they are resident in the UK free of restrictions.
After 30 June 2021, nationals of the EEA or Switzerland will also need to provide evidence that their stay is free from restrictions.

In the context of EEA nationals, we are content that pre-settled status counts as free from restrictions.

The portal to upload Tattoos should not be used to upload CV\'s or Expressions of Interest, if you do this your application will not be included in the recruitment process.

Minimum Age for Applications

16

Greater Manchester Police