OR16762 – Senior Accountant

Deadline – 14th November 2025,

Umbrella rate: £114.86 per hour

The following delivery milestones would be expected to be completed over the six-month assignment:

– Establish operational governance arrangements for a new Capital Governance Board.

– Provide support and advice to the Capital Governance Board.

– Undertake a fundamental review of Capital Programme Expenditure and associated Funding streams, to identify opportunities for cost efficiencies, improved project management and forecasting and optimising funding streams.

– Review and strengthen the Capital Strategy, Capital Programme, and inter-relationships with the Treasury Management Strategy.

– Engage with Programme and Project Managers, Finance Business Partnering, Financial Strategy and Corporate Finance Colleagues to establish more robust project management, financial management, reporting, and accounting arrangements.

– Development and delivery of guidance and training to finance and non-finance officers relating to capital expenditure and funding rules and procedures, including contributing to a review of financial regulations.

– Review and develop capital expenditure controls and assessing and implementing de-minimis thresholds.

– Engage with Property colleagues in relation to Asset Rationalisation to develop a pipeline of capital receipts to support delivery of the Council’s Medium Term Financial Strategy.

– Aligning capital budget approvals to monitoring and coding on the balance sheet and implementing in year control procedures.

– Implement quarterly processes for controlling monitoring and accounting for capital receipts and reconciliation to the asset register to determine gains and losses on asset disposal.

– Engagement with property and legal colleagues to ensure whole system controls are in place.