Management Accountant

Job summary

The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you’re applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. There’s no guarantee that we will grant this approval.

You must be aged 16 or over at the point of starting in this role. The expected start date is approximately 8–12 weeks after the application closing date. Candidates are expected to commence employment as soon as possible following the expiry of their notice period. Requests for significantly later start dates may not be accommodated.

You will be responsible for maintaining the integrity of financial data, supporting robust financial processes and delivering accurate and timely financial reporting. The role plays a key part in ensuring compliance with organisational policies and the CPS assurance and control framework, while providing clear financial insights to support informed decision-making.

Key responsibilities include

• ensuring the accuracy and reliability of financial data through effective processes and controls
• providing assurance on financial management practices
• producing transparent financial reporting with meaningful analysis and narrative on performance, risks, and opportunities.

You will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to build strong, collaborative relationships and support consistent, high-quality financial management.

Job description

Your roles and responsibilities as the Management Accountant is you are responsible for ensuring data integrity, assurance, managing financial processes, and providing accurate financial reporting. Activities delivered will include.

• Data Integrity - Ensure the accuracy and reliability of financial data, completing financial processes and checks in accordance with instructions and timeframes.
• Assurance – Provide oversight and assurance that the organisations financial management complies with the relevant policies, procedures and processes in accordance with the CPS’ assurance and control framework.
• Financial Reporting - Deliver comprehensive, transparent, and timely financial information and insights to inform decision-making. Provide relevant analysis and clear narrative on the financial position, advising on financial risks, issues and oppurtunites.
• Stakeholder Relationships - Build and maintain collaborative, customer-focused relationships and networks with a range of stakeholders locally and across the wider organisation. Work collaboratively with peers and finance directorate colleagues to share good practice.

Person specification

Essential

To be eligible to apply, you need to:

• Demonstrate experience in financial management, reporting, or analysis
• Show the ability to interpret financial information and provide clear, insight-led commentary
• Have strong attention to detail with a focus on data accuracy and quality
• Evidence the ability to build effective working relationships and collaborate with stakeholders
• Demonstrate an understanding of financial controls, governance, and assurance processes

Desirable

• Understanding of International Accounting Standards
• Understanding of Government Accounts

Technical

• Willing to work towards Level 4 Finance qualification with 6 months of being in post

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,935, Crown Prosecution Service contributes £10,410 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

Join the Crown Prosecution Service and find your purpose.

The Crown Prosecution Service is passionate about ensuring that we're a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We're a committed equal opportunities employer, creating a culture where you can bring your whole self to work, and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our staff networks covering disability, faith and belief, LGBTQI+, race, social mobility alongside our mental health first aiders programme and wellbeing sessions.

The Crown Prosecution Service commits to offer its employees the following experience.

• You can do impactful, purposeful work that’s making a difference to your local communities.
• You are able to learn and grow, with access to the right opportunities and resources.
• We care about your wellbeing.
• We want you to feel valued, trusted and included.

We also offer the following range of benefits:

• Civil Service contributory pension of up to 28.9%
• 25 days’ leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years
• £350 each year to spend on personal development
• lawyer training programme for all new prosecutors
• an extra privilege day to mark the King's birthday
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• flexible working including flexitime, and a family friendly approach to work
• Cycle2Work scheme, employee savings.

Diversity at the Crown Prosecution Service is about inclusion, embracing differences and ensuring our workforce truly reflects the communities we serve. We want you to feel that you belong and can thrive, whatever your background, identity or culture. As a Disability Confident employer, we're happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments and improve your recruitment experience. If you'd like any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process, let us know within your application or contact [email removed]

If you’re joining the Crown Prosecution Service on a lateral transfer from another government department, you should contact us about the impact on your salary and the implications of any time you’ve already spent at that grade before applying or accepting an employment offer. Your salary may be adjusted if your location changes when you join us. This adjustment also takes into account any existing allowances that may have previously been consolidated into your basic pay – there’s no guarantee that you can retain these when you transfer.

We want to ensure our employees can thrive at work and home and offer a range of support to achieve a balance. This includes flexibility of working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a flexible approach to deployment. We offer a hybrid working policy. You must spend at least 40% of your contracted hours over a four-week period at court, in an office or another official workplace depending on business need and the kind of work you're doing.

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