Deputy Principal Accountant

ACCA, CIMA, Chartered Accountant, Qualified Accountant, Financial Accountant, Accountant, Public Sector, NICS

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Are you looking for flexible work? Does 1 day in the office and the rest from home be ideal for you?
I am recruiting for a Deputy Principal Accountant on behalf of the Northern Ireland Civil Service for the Department for Communities, which offers the work/life balance everyone deserves and that hybrid/ flexibility needed.

Your new role

• Ensure delivery of a programme of high-quality regulatory engagement and finance assessments which is joined-up, risk-based and focused on ensuring compliance with the standards.
• Ensure that corporate approaches to quality assurance and control are consistently applied and that all outputs meet agreed quality standards.
• Taking direction from the Head of Regulation and Inspection to ensure that workload is prioritised as required.
• Act as one of the operational interfaces between the Department for Communities (DfC) and RHAs, ensuring that key regulatory and inspection issues reach a positive conclusion.
• Support the Head of Branch with the management of complex regulatory cases in conjunction with other inspection/regulation staff and developing appropriate regulatory responses.
• Ensure RHAs in Northern Ireland meet the requirements of the Regulatory Framework and develop appropriate regulatory/legislative responses to underperformance which includes the full range of voluntary and intervention powers.
• Develop and maintain constructive working relationships with RHAs offering support and working collaboratively.
• Lead liaison with related stakeholders in the social housing sector in Northern Ireland; including tenant representative organisations and lenders, toprofessionally represent the Housing Regulation Branch and the Department to the social housing sector and its key partners.
• Respond to requests for Ministerial Briefing, FOI, Assembly Questions, Oral Questions etc.
• To co-ordinate and deliver the operational contributions to thematic reviews undertaken by the Housing Regulation and Inspection Team together with input into wider policy, legislation and strategy work.
• To be a moderator for all high-level team decisions; including shaping appropriate regulatory/legislative responses which includes the full range of voluntary and intervention powers.
• Line Manager duties and other duties commensurate with competencies relating to this grade.

What you'll need to succeed

Active, paying member of an accredited accountancy body (ACA/ACCA/CIMA etc.) or to be of an equivalent qualification standard.
What you'll get in return
£26.41 p/h £43,584 annually, 37-hour working week, 37 days annual leave, 1 day in the office and flexible working options.

What you need to do now
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