Make a Difference Where It Matters Most

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for public service and financial excellence? Tower Hamlets Council is looking for a Senior Accountant supporting Communities Directorate to help shape the future of one of London’s most vibrant and diverse boroughs.

This is more than just a finance role — it’s your opportunity to influence how vital services are delivered to over 300,000 residents. You’ll be a trusted advisor to senior managers, helping to drive value, accountability, and innovation across the Council.

 What You’ll Be Doing

• Acting as a Finance Business Partner to Directors, Heads of Service, and budget managers.
• Leading financial planning, modelling, and forecasting for complex service areas.
• Managing a small team and delivering high-quality financial insight and reporting.
• Supporting the Council’s Medium-Term Financial Strategy and annual budget process.
• Playing a key role in closing the annual accounts and ensuring compliance with audit and regulatory standards.

What We’re Looking For

• A qualified accountant (CCAB/CIMA) with strong post-qualification experience.
• A confident communicator who can influence and challenge at senior levels.
• A collaborative leader who can inspire and develop a high-performing team.
• Someone who thrives in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment.

Why Tower Hamlets?

• Impact: Your work will directly support services that improve lives across a diverse and dynamic community.
• Growth: We invest in your development with CPD, leadership programmes, and opportunities to shape strategic projects.
• Flexibility: Enjoy hybrid working, generous leave, and a culture that supports work-life harmony.
• Inclusion: Be part of a council that celebrates diversity and champions equality in everything we do.

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. 

We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the post are guaranteed an interview. Care experience has also been adopted by the Council as an additional protected characteristic.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.

Ready to Apply?

Further information and person specifications on the role can be found in the attachments at the bottom of this advert.

For an informal discussion about the role, contact: hr.generalenquiries@towerhamlets.gov.uk

This post is open to the following types of applicants: Redeployees/ Internal/ External

All applications should be made via our online application system, no CV’s or alternative forms of applications are accepted. Internal employees should apply via the council's Intranet. External applicants apply via the Council's website www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/careers

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