The Finance Team at WMP aims to provide accurate, concise, consistent and timely financial and non-financial information to enhance the ability of stakeholders to make the best decisions about the delivery of their service as well as ensuring the force meets its statutory obligations in respect to finance. This Accountancy Assistant role is pivotal to this mission. We are seeking someone to join this high performing, welcoming team who has strong analytical skills, impressive attention to detail, natural organisational skills and is driven to deliver.
The Accounting Assistant will provide support to the to the finance department to maintain financial administration and control.
Key Responsibilities:
- The completion of all transactional activities relating to month and year end reporting.
- The preparation of journals and reconciliations
- Ad hoc payments and recharges
- Checking the integrity of data and processing code corrections as and when required.
- To provide basic analysis of data where required on areas such as overtime.
- To provide support on areas of activities that cross both finance and the Shared Services function.
- Preparation of statutory returns.
- Support the preparation of the statutory accounts via the review of transactional data.
- Any other duties commensurate with the role
Essential Skills:
- The post holder should be educated to GCSE standard or equivalent including Maths and English.
- Started or keen to obtain a qualification in the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) or equivalent.
- Knowledge/Experience of industry standard accounting systems and Microsoft Office components.
- Ability to question financial information and draw conclusions
- Ability to organise own workloads and meet the needs of the team.
- Effective verbal and written skills
- Highly motivated and proactive approach to working including a strong desire to meet deadlines and deliver quality work.
- Ability to work collaboratively to achieve shared goals – business focused and flexible when meeting operational needs and expectations.
Strong focus on customer relationship skills.
Prospective officers and staff must be held to a higher standard of behaviour and accountability than members of the public, and that therefore their right to privacy can be fettered in certain circumstances. This is to ensure that members of the police are fully aware and accountable for the unique powers entrusted to them and the standards of professional behaviour they swear to uphold.
Benefit Statement:
By choosing to join West Midlands Police you will receive an enhanced benefits package including:
Fair remuneration with progression opportunities and access to a very competitive pension scheme.
Enhanced annual leave in addition to public holiday entitlements.
Discounts across travel, parking, daily costs of living and leisure activities.
A comprehensive wellbeing package including 24/7 support, free eye tests and flu jabs
Comprehensive benefits including pension, Blue Light Card, and employee assistance programme.
Vetting: Successful applicants will be required to pass Recruitment Vetting and Counter Terrorism Clearance scrutiny prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.
Medical: Successful applicants will be subject to a medical assessment which may include a drug or hearing test.
Interview: W.C 18th May 2026
Hours/Location: Monday to Friday - 36.5. Lloyd house
Contact: For further information email careers@westmidlands.police.uk
West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.
It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.
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