Operations Accounts Officer

About the role

The Operations team ensures the smooth day‑to‑day functioning of a diverse estate, delivering safe, efficient and customer‑focused services across both operational and non‑operational sites. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Operations team as an Accounts Officer, to provide support to budget managers and the wider Operations team.

Our estate includes corporate buildings, care environments, country parks, day centres, libraries, and additional partner‑managed properties.

This role reports directly to the Operations Business Manager.

What will you be doing?

What Will You Be Doing?

As Accounts Officer, you will assist the Senior Finance Officers to support budget managers and the wider Operations team.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the Senior Finance Officer with month-end and year-end reporting.
• Year-end accruals and monitoring open orders at year-end.
• Provide reporting and analytical support to the wider Operations team.
• Process invoices, purchase orders, sales invoices, incoming post, and carry out journals within our ERP system.
• Support the Senior Finance Officer with the Helpdesk K2 payment run.
• Provide coding guidance to the accounts/admin team.
• Liaise with Laser (Utilities contractor) on queries and coordinate meter reads or site access with relevant NNC teams.
• Attend monthly Laser meetings alongside the Operations Business Manager.
• Support wider operational functions, including providing administrative cover when required, and carrying out duties aligned to the scope and purpose of the role.

About you

About You

You will be someone who thrives in a fast‑paced operational environment and is committed to delivering high‑quality service. A sound background in a accounts particularly in Purchase Ledger function.

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)