Senior Qualified Accountants

Three Senior Qualified Accountants - Swansea - full-time, part-time and job share

Job Title: Senior Qualified Accountant (£44,808)Salary: £40,808You will also receive a Recruitment and Retention Allowance of £4,000 which will bring your total pay up to £44,808Pension: 28.97%Job grade: Senior Executive OfficerContract type: PermanentBusiness area: DVLA - Finance and Assurance ServicesWorking pattern: Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-timeNumber of jobs available: 3Location: Swansea
Job Summary:The Finance and Assurance Services (FAS) Directorate at DVLA is a vibrant and dynamic place to work. We play a key role in supporting the Agency to achieve its strategic aims and to deliver effective value for money by providing clear advice and robust insight to inform decisions. We are agile and alert to emerging opportunities for continuous improvement. We also offer modern, flexible ways of working and opportunities for you to develop as part of a welcoming and innovative team, and we are recognised as a 'Platinum Employer' by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Our strategy is to be at the heart of decision-making. We are experts in our field and pride ourselves on providing a professional service to all of our customers and stakeholders. We operate within seamless governance and assurance processes and we are fully committed to developing all of our staff to their full potential through formal learning and development courses and more informal shadowing and mentoring opportunities.Job description:We are looking for 3 qualified accountants to join our Finance and Assurance Services Directorate. You will be assigned to one of the business areas listed in the Functional Accountabilities section of the role profile; namely:
Financial ReportingManagement ReportingStrategic FinanceFinance Business Partnering
In addition to the day-to-day requirements of your role, you may also have management responsibilities. If you have not worked as a manager previously, we will support you to develop the necessary skills.
Responsibilities:

For further information about the role please see the role profile and candidate pack on Civil Services Jobs - job reference 374186.Person Specification:We are looking for someone:With strong technical accounting skills. You should be confident explaining accounting issues in a readily understandable way to colleagues outside the finance profession.With strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
You should be an excellent communicator with the ability to tailor your communication style to your audience, interpreting complex financial information and making it accessible to all key stakeholders.Who is confident taking the lead with your work to deliver against tight deadlines, but who is also keen to collaborate with others, building strong stakeholder networks and maintaining positive relationships.Memberships:Candidates must hold full CCAB or CIMA membership.Additional Information:Applications will be accepted from full time/part time/job sharers. Full time roles at DVLA consist of 37 hours per week. Part time and/or flexible working may also be available subject to the needs of the business. If you have a flexible or part time working requirement, you should contact Hays in advance of making an application to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your desired working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role. To contact Hays, please use the contact details listed below under 'Contact point for applicants'.Please note that we advocate several Civil Service recruitment schemes:Disability Confident SchemeGreat Place to Work for VeteransRedeployment Interview Scheme - RIS (for current Civil Servants)If you believe that you are eligible to make an application under one of these schemes then please let us know at the point of application.Benefits:Alongside your salary of £40,808, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency contributes £11,822 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits.
Best in class learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance
Generous employer contribution of 28.97%, depending on chosen pension scheme
25 days holiday, increasing by one day each year up to 30 days pro rata
Access to the staff discount portal
24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff
A non-contractual hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a minimum of 60% of their time in the office over a month, with flexibility dependent on balancing business and individual need.

How to Apply:For this role you will need to submit a CV which must include your employment history, relevant experience to date, and professional qualifications and memberships.In addition, your CV must include instances when you have demonstrated the following skills (the "essential criteria"):- Working with applicable accounting standards (such as UK GAAP, IFRS etc.) and / or experience of conducting financial analysis or interpretation- Managing stakeholders, which can include team members, management, clients, or other external partners- Meeting urgent deadlinesFor this recruitment campaign we will be working with our recruitment partners: Hays. To apply, please send your most up to date CV (which should include the information above) to before the advertised closing date/time.

Following this, Hays will compile a long list of applications, and these will be sent through to the DVLA recruitment team. The DVLA recruitment team will then complete an internal sift. Success candidates from the sift will then be progressed to interview.The internal sift is due to take place from week commencing Monday 4th November 2024.Interviews will be held from week commencing Monday 11th November 2024.Interviews will be conducted on site at DVLA, Swansea.
Further details of which will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.This vacancy is using
Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.Please take note that DVLA does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application or used during interview is truthful and factually accurate. Applications may be rejected if plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or concepts generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.For further information relating to the selection process, Security Clearance Information, Success Profiles, Civil Service code, Recruitment Principles, Reasonable Adjustments and Complaints process please follow the link on Civil Services Jobs - job reference 374186. #