Finance Assistant

The Opportunity

Working Pattern: 1 x Full-time, 37 hours and 1x Part-time, 15 hours per week.

Salary: £25,584 to £25,992 per annum (£10,371 to £10,537 per annum, pro rota'd).

Location: County Hall, Chichester with hybrid options also available.

Interview date: Week commencing 05/01/2026.

In this role you'll take ownership of a range of everyday admin and finance tasks, for example, processing budget updates, preparing figures for reports, and making sure payments are handled accurately and on time.

You'll work confidently on your own when needed, especially with routine tasks, but you'll also be part of a friendly team that's always happy to help.

We're looking for someone who:

• Has experience in admin or finance and is comfortable explaining simple financial information.
• Enjoys helping customers or colleagues and can stay calm and professional when dealing with difficult phone queries.

• Likes working in an organised, steady role where accuracy matters.

• Possess communication skills.

• Has confidence in the use of systems and processes as the role will include working with large volumes of sensitive data.
• Has experience working with IT, mainly using Microsoft applications such as Word or Excel.
• Can prioritise daily tasks to meet deadlines and objectives.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this, we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 25 days (full time equivalent) (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00994.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Simon Hopkins at For issues or queries regarding your application please contact

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline how you meet the key skills and experience you can bring to the role, refer to the attached job description.

If you have a preference with either the full time or part time vacancy, please note this in your application.

Ensure that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application helppage.

Job Reference: CRS00994