Principal Accountant Pensions

Hertfordshire County Council supports over 1.2 million people and 58,000 businesses and is focused on putting their residents at the heart of everything they do, ensuring they are working with integrity and acting sustainably to deliver services that give residents the best quality of life, and championing equality and fairness. The Hertfordshire Pension Fund is one of 86 Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds across England and Wales.

The Principal Accountant Pensions will work closely with the Finance Manager for Pensions to play a key role in ensuring the Fund meets its regulatory obligations, delivers accurate and timely reporting, and implements investment strategies that safeguard the financial future of members of Hertfordshire Pension Fund. This is a senior role at the heart of our Pensions Team, it manages two people with responsibility for preparing the Fund’s statutory accounts, annual report, and returns, as well as providing specialist financial and investment advice to senior officers and elected members.

To be suitable you need to be a fully qualified accountant, or will qualify in the next 9 months, with substantial experience, ideally within pensions, financial accounting or financial reporting preferably in a Local Government setting. Strong influencing, communication, and relationship-building skills are also very important.

The role will give you the chance to work in a supportive and collaborative team environment with the opportunity to help shape how a major local government pension fund delivers for its members and the chance to build on your experience of influencing strategic decisions.

Hertfordshire offer a hybrid working model, with an expectation that people are in the Stevenage office at least 1 day per week.

For a confidential conversation about the role, or to see the job description please contact Will Ryan at Ivy Rock Partners on 07909 030 965 or willryan@ivyrockpartners.com

To apply for the role, please send through a CV alongside a supporting statement. The supporting statement should be no more than two pages and should say why you are interested in the role and why you think you are suitable?

The closing date for the role is 29th September.