4 Local Councils jobs in Hawthorn Hill

3 months contract with a Local Authority Job Summary: • An experienced and qualified accountant is required to support the Housing, Leisure, and Community Support Services functions.• The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering high-quality financial advice, budget planning, monitoring, and final accounts preparation.• This is a temporary role requiring a proactive finance professional with a strong understanding of local government finance and excellent analytical and communication skills.Key Duties/Accountabilities (Sample): • Provide strategic financial advice to senior officers, team leads, and budget holders.• Lead on the preparation and monitoring of revenue and capital budgets.• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, including final accounts.• Assist in the development and maintenance of the medium-term financial strategy.• Advise on the financial aspects of external funding bids and ensure compliance with conditions.• Analyse financial performance and support efficiency and cost-saving initiatives.• Prepare statutory and non-statutory returns, including government and statistical submissions.• Represent finance at relevant meetings, committees, and project boards.• Maintain and develop cost coding structures and ensure accurate budget allocations.• Support and guide service teams on financial governance, policy compliance, and financial procedures.• Authorise payment runs and ad hoc payments via the online banking system.• Supervise and mentor staff under the postholder’s remit.• Engage in corporate improvement initiatives and continuous professional development.Skills/Experience: • Strong knowledge of public sector finance, including CIPFA codes and financial procedures.• Significant experience in financial planning, budgeting, and account closure within a public body.• Excellent ability to analyse complex financial data and produce accurate reports.• Proven ability to communicate financial matters clearly to non-financial stakeholders.• Experience with financial systems, Excel, and other MS Office tools.• Strong time management and ability to meet strict deadlines.• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams.• Effective people management and team-working skills.Additional Information: • The closing date: 26/08/2025.• Full or part-qualified CCAB accountant (preferably CIPFA).• A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check may be required.

**We help the world run better**
At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.
**What you'll do** :
The Account Executive (AE) role empowers customers to achieve their full potential by strategically positioning SAP cloud solutions to address their unique business challenges and lay a strong foundation for future success. The role includes the following key aspects:
+ Account & Customer Relationship Management:
+ Serve as the end-to-end account owner, managing sales of software licenses and cloud subscriptions and establish a trusted relationship with the customer.
+ Develop and execute strategic account plans to ensure sustainable growth and achieve/exceed revenue targets.
+ Gain a comprehensive understanding of each customer's technology landscape, strategic goals, and competitive environment.
+ Demand Generation, Pipeline, and Opportunity Management:
+ Maintain pipeline management, ensuring a healthy and advancing sales funnel.
+ Leverage internal resources, including marketing, inside sales, and partner channels, to drive demand and manage opportunities.
+ Utilize SAP's comprehensive solution portfolio, including industry-specific and line-of-business (LoB) solutions, to effectively address customer needs.
+ Sales Excellence:
+ Conduct White Space analysis to identify and execute up-sell and cross-sell opportunities within existing accounts.
+ Orchestrate and deploy appropriate teams to ensure successful sales outcomes, embodying the "OneSAP" approach.
+ Stay informed about SAP's competition and position SAP solutions effectively against them.
+ Maintain accurate customer and pipeline information within CRM systems.
+ Leading a (Virtual) Account Team:
+ Lead and orchestrate remote and cross-functional teams to align with the customer's strategic objectives.
+ Ensure that account teams and partners are well-prepared and strategically positioned for all customer interactions.
+ Maximize the value derived from SAP's extensive sales support ecosystem.
**What you bring** :
+ Experience in sales of complex business software/IT solutions.
+ Proven success in business application software sales and leading team-selling environments.
+ Demonstrated ability to handle large transactions and lengthy sales campaigns in a fast-paced, competitive market.
+ Strong negotiation skills and experience in renewals, expansions, and up-sells of subscription-based solutions.
+ Fluent in Business English, with proficiency in additional languages considered a plus.
**Soft skills** :
+ Exceptional communication, both verbal and non-verbal.
+ Strategic thinking with a high degree of creativity and innovation.
+ Strong executive presence and results-driven mindset.
+ Ability to work across multiple teams within a matrix organization.
**Meet your team** :
+ Join a highly motivated team with a deep understanding of SAP's solution portfolio.
+ Engage in collaborative work with SAP leadership and industry teams to drive customer success.
+ Align with product/solution management teams to enhance your strategic engagements.
+ Leverage your expertise while working in a dynamic and challenging environment at the forefront of SAP's customer engagements.
**Skills you'll use:**
**Professional Skills**
Customer Orientation
Effective Communication
Establishing Trust
Collaboration
Results Orientation
**Tech Industry & SAP General Skills**
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Artificial Intelligence
Process Improvement
Technology Innovation
SAP Cloud Suite Portfolio
RISE and GROW with SAP
SAP Corporate Strategy
**Role Specific Skills**
Cloud Strategy
Complex Sales
Customer Engagement
Customer Relationship Management
Industry Knowledge
Negotiation
Sales Forecasting
Sales Qualification
Competitive Positioning
Account Governance
**#SAPCSCareers**
**Bring out your best**
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.
**We win with inclusion**
SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team:
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy ( . Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.
**EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:**
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.
Requisition ID: 415605 | Work Area: Sales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

About Us:
We are the leader in human-centric cybersecurity. Half a million customers, including 87 of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint to protect their organizations. We're driven by a mission to stay ahead of bad actors and safeguard the digital world. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.
How We Work:
At Proofpoint, you'll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity, guided by our BRAVE core values: Bold in how we dream and innovate, Responsive to feedback, challenges, and opportunities, Accountable for results and best-in-class outcomes, Visionary in future-focused problem-solving, Exceptional in execution and impact.
**Corporate Overview**
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations' greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than 50% of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That's why we're a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
**The Role**
We are seeking a proactive, creative, and tenacious Named Account Manager to drive new cyber security business across Public Sector organisations in the UK. This role will demand interaction with large scale enterprises at the 'C' level, as well as with technical staff within the security and IT organisation.
You will manage a portfolio of Public Sector accounts, encompassing a mix of white-space and existing customers. Selling the full Proofpoint Platform, while leveraging all internal resources and our ecosystem of partners to enable continued growth of your account portfolio. In this role you will be able to expand the Proofpoint footprint, ensuring your customers are effectively protected from advanced threats and targeted attacks by our award-winning technology.
**Your day-to-day**
+ Establish strong business relationships at the executive level within Public Sector accounts above 2,500 users (cross-vertical focus)
+ Focus on both penetrating new accounts as well as expanding our presence with existing customers by introducing them to all our security, compliance and information protection platform.
+ Articulate and promote the company's value proposition and services to become a trusted advisor within your customer base
+ Work with internal resources, including aligned System Engineers to prepare account strategies and plans.
+ Collaborate with Systems Engineers to organise and deliver compelling and flawless product demonstrations
+ Partner with the channel ecosystem to gain access into new accounts
+ Deliver operational excellence, to include forecast accuracy and pipeline generation progression
+ Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Proofpoint's competitive positioning in the marketplace
**What you bring to the team**
+ Experienced technology sales professional, with a particular focus on SaaS value-based technologies. Experience within Cyber Security is an advantage.
+ Proven track record of over-achieving targets, net new logo achievements and capacity to leverage channel partnerships
+ Relentless attention to detail and never-give-up attitude with a high level of activity, i.e., customer and partner meetings emphasizing executive value selling (CISO, CIO, CMO, etc.)
+ Ability to establish business relationships at the executive level, and ability to become a trusted client advisor
+ Experience of closing complex opportunities in the range of $100k - $1m
+ Proficient user of formal sales playbook methodologies e.g. MEDDIC, Challenger, TAS, Command of the Message.
+ Growth mindset, willingness to be coached, and diligence to follow a proven sales process
+ Entrepreneurial self-starter with a consistent focus on account planning, pipeline generation and opportunity progression. You're strategic in approach but always act with urgency.
+ Preferably you'll have experience of using Salesforce
**Why Proofpoin**
+ Supportive leadership; an inclusive and employee centric culture
+ Award winning and market leading technology
+ We invest in our sales teams, through world-class leadership & enablement programs
**Why Proofpoint**
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We're a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly 'culture-add', and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint
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Why Proofpoint? At Proofpoint, we believe that an exceptional career experience includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. Here are just a few reasons you'll love working with us:
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits
- Learning & Development: We are committed to the growth and development of our team members, offering a range of programs including leadership and professional development workshops, stretch project assignments, and mentoring opportunities to help employees reach their full potential.
- Flexible work environment: (Remote options, hybrid schedules, flexible hours, etc.).
- Annual wellness and community outreach days
- Always on recognition for your contributions
- Global collaboration and networking opportunities
Our Culture:
Our culture is rooted in values that inspire belonging, empower purpose and drive success-every day, for everyone. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to . How to Apply Interested? Submit your application here . We can't wait to hear from you!
Proofpoint has been honored with six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.
We are the leader in human-centric cybersecurity. Half a million customers, including 87 of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint to protect their organizations. We're driven by a mission to stay ahead of bad actors and safeguard the digital world. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.
Our BRAVE Values:
At Proofpoint, we are BRAVE in everything we do, and our values aren't just words-they shape how we work, collaborate, and grow.
We seek people who are bold enough to challenge the status quo, responsive in the face of ever-evolving threats, and accountable for delivering real impact.
We value those with a visionary mindset who anticipate what's next and push cybersecurity forward, and we celebrate exceptional execution that ensures we continue to defend data and protect people.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.
Find your network, your allies, and your biggest fans. We know that work is simply better when you're surrounded by people who inspire you-who share ideas, cheer you on, and genuinely want to see you succeed. That's why we offer social circles, sponsored networks, and connection points across teams and time zones-to help you find your people, build your community, and thrive together.
This isn't just a job-it's a mission to protect people and defend data in a world that never slows down. We're building the future of human-centric cybersecurity, and that future belongs to all of us. We take ownership, move fast, and hold ourselves accountable-because that's what it takes to stay ahead. And we do it together, winning as one.
Be empowered to reach your full potential through meaningful challenges and personalized support-designed around you and your goals. Whether you're growing as a leader or leveling up from great to exceptional as an individual contributor, we're here to help you get there.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.