Opportunities in finance

North Yorkshire is a great county with people and businesses who are proud to live here, proud of what they do and of who they are; the people who work for and represent the council are just the same. We are passionate about the place that we work in and the people for whom we work. We are proud about what we have achieved as a council; confident about the services that we provide and ambitious for the future even through the difficult times of austerity.

We currently have opportunities for you to work in the finance team within a high-performing council during an exciting time. We have been transforming the way in which we offer financial services to budget managers and external customers. 

As a shortlisted finalist in the national Public Finance Innovation Awards (including Finance Team of the Year), the finance team provides a centre of expertise in commercial work and financial modelling. We contribute to the council’s commercial agenda by supporting services to be commercially aware and identifying opportunities for us to generate additional income streams.

One of the greatest challenges we have is to deliver a balanced budget that protects frontline services, whilst making sure that we are in good shape to deal with present and future priorities. We have simplified and standardised many of our processes and ways of working across the council and shared these with our partners. We know we need to make even more changes. Our approach to this is to keep our customers at the heart of all our services and to make it possible for them to make choices and to self-serve in accessing many of our services.

If you have the desire and dedication to work and develop your career in local government finance, we would like to hear from you.

Thank you for your interest.

About our service

The finance team provides financial advice and support across the council, as well as to other partner organisations including the North York Moors National Park Authority. Rather than the traditional accountancy roles, these roles will give you the opportunity to be an enabler to managers, whilst influencing and challenging as appropriate. You will be an ambassador for customer self-help as you support budget managers to monitor and manage their own budgets through maximising technology and delivering efficient services that add value.

These posts provide opportunities to work across fields of accountancy including: financial planning, budget support and projects to internal and external clients:

• strategic planning
• projects
• commercial
• technical and capital including treasury management
• schools and early years
• pensions

Why work for us

We are a strong performing authority, with supportive political leadership and talented teams providing the platform to have a fulfilling, challenging and successful career in a truly stunning place.

We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice, offering a range of training and development opportunities and career progression allowing you to manage your own development journey and empowering you to control your career.

We positively encourage flexible working and provide staff with the technology they need to work from a wide variety of locations and from home.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an ambitious team during a time of considerable change, and contribute to the challenges and opportunities that exist, both present and future.

If you would like to play a key part in delivering this ambition then we would like to hear from you.

You will support a wide variety of front-line services, including Children and Young People services, Health and Adult services, and Business and Environmental services. We also provide services to schools and early years providers, as well as external customers including the North Yorkshire Pension Fund and an increasing number of commercial companies.

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Consider moving to North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire really is a stunning, vibrant county with safe communities and excellent education. Over the past two years the new national crime figures have revealed North Yorkshire to be the safest place in England. It is rich in heritage and culture, in a back drop of outstanding natural beauty, vibrant cities, market towns, quaint villages, stunning rural and coastal landscapes. North Yorkshire features significantly in the top ten of the UK Halifax quality of life survey.

If you are considering relocating to North Yorkshire we provide a comprehensive relocation and benefits package (subject to eligibility), and as a whole North Yorkshire offers some great employment opportunities for your family members along with a substantial number of good to outstanding performing schools. A simply stunning location to live and work, we really do have it all!

The county benefits from excellent road and rail links, with easy access via the east coast mainline, the A1(M) and A19. Leeds, York, Newcastle, Durham and Teesside are all easily commutable, and London just two hours away by train. North Yorkshire borders the Lake District, Lancashire, County Durham, and Yorkshire and Humber regions with all they have to offer.

Key documents

• our total rewards
• relocation policy
• working for us
• welcome to Yorkshire website
• the council plan

Contact us and apply

If you feel you have the skills, passion, and drive that we are seeking, we want to hear from you!

We will not accept applications from agencies.