Finance Officer

1 week ago

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom WSCC Full time

About The Job Salary**:
£28,371 to £31,099 per annum.

Contract:
Fixed term contract until 31/07/2023.

Hours:
Full-time, 37 hours per week.

Location:
Chichester, with hybrid working opportunities.

You will support the Senior Finance Officer with delivering training sessions on relevant topics. You will close down school accounts and produce Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) returns for the Department for Education.


In this role you will assist the Senior Finance Officer and School Resource Managers in providing high level specialist advice and support to schools.

Duties will usually relate specifically to issues within the finance system, financial assessments or payments including processing invoices, monitoring accounts and working on technical data as well as broader tasks relating to supporting the management of the team and its function.


Key Skills and Qualifications Key Skills**- Good analytical and problem-solving skills to analyse complex financial information.

  • Clear and effective written communication skills to present information for managers, contribute to reports and write nonstandard correspondence appropriately.
  • Good numeracy skills in order to make sound and accurate financial calculations, working with an understanding of finance.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in order to maintain effective communication across the team and with managers and clients.
  • The ability to supervise and aid development of staff, providing direction, guidance and support to individuals and teams. Including the ability to manage training and allocate work effectively to meet objectives and provide an efficient team service.
  • The ability to contribute to reviewing working practices, including analysing current practice, recognising where change is needed, and contributing to improving working methods, systems and the effectiveness of processes and service delivery. The ability to embrace change and adapt to changing situations and new ways of working positively and effectively.

Qualifications and/or experience:

  • 3 A levels at A-D (Maths related desirable), or equivalent qualification or experience demonstrating that level of ability, applied knowledge and understanding.
  • Relevant theoretical, practical and procedural knowledge related to delivering a specialist financial service.
  • Computer literate.
  • Significant experience demonstrating applied specialist practical and theoretical knowledge in a relevant financial discipline.
  • Experience of working in a customer orientated environment.
  • Some experience supervising and supporting others or providing mentoring, coaching and / or onthejob training to colleagues to maximise their specific capabilities.
  • Experience providing specialist advice to managers or customers. Including

Rewards and Benefits

Our values and support for one another is intrinsic to everything we do and will be a key priority within the assessment for this post.

We care hugely about wellbeing, allowing time for a good laugh, and developing our team to be the best they can be.

Alongside this, we also offer the below benefits.
-
26 days annual leave + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually.

  • Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme, 21.37% employer contribution*.
  • A range of flexible working options.
  • Maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave.
  • Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring.
  • A range of discounts including: ASOS, Cineworld, Samsung and Apple.
  • Practising certificate funded.
  • Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres.
  • A range of commuting and business travel discount and initiatives.


For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our
Rewards and Benefits page.


  • This alters annually every 01.04.

Application information
The reference number for this role is
CRS00657.

You must be based in the UK, on the start date of your employment.

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a supplier list for when we need a helping hand.

We'll be in touch directly if we need you

Job Reference:
CRS00657

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