Income Management System Administrator

Job Introduction

**Income Management System Administrator and Senior Finance Officer**

**37 hours per week**

**NJC SO1 £34,434 to £36,363 per annum (Full Membership AAT & relevant experience)**

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Telford & Wrekin Council’s Finance department working in Income Management and the Capital Projects Team within Corporate and Capital Finance service area. This is one combined role with your time being split equally across both roles._**

**About us**

Telford & Wrekin Council is a well-regarded and multi-award winning council. For further information please see the Council’s website - Telford & Wrekin Council | Are you looking for a new challenge or a change of career?

We offer our staff a wide range of benefits including:

- Hybrid working (Finance currently work in the office on one day a fortnight)
- Flexible working hours
- Employee discounts and salary sacrifice schemes
- Annual pay increments within the grade
- Local Government Pension Scheme (a defined benefit scheme with very substantial employer contributions)
- Payment of relevant professional fees
- Annual leave entitlement of 24 days with 0-5 years’ service, 29 days after 5 years, 32 days after 10 years, plus one additional concessionary day in addition to bank holidays (any previous local government employment counts towards service for annual leave purposes).
- Options to purchase up to 4 weeks additional leave.
- Free parking**
**The role**

Robust financial control plays an important part in enabling the Council to deliver a consistently high standard of services to local communities.

We are seeking to fulfil the role of Income Management System Administrator / Senior Finance Officer who will provide and support and advice for two key areas delivering services in the Council.

This role could be considered for job share across the two elements.

**Income Management System Support**

The key purpose of this element of the role is to support, develop and maintain all of the Council’s Income Management system modules, Civica ICON. This will include developing and maintaining a full understanding of system’s potential and business need, providing training and guidance both to Income Management Team Members to end users across the wider Council services. You will be required to provide a customer focussed help desk to support both Telford & Wrekin services and external contacts including schools, suppliers and customers.

Working within the Corporate Finance Team the post holder will report to the Income Management Supervisor and will form part of a small team responsible for producing an accurate cash book which feeds into the Councils financial ledger and Statement of Accounts. You will need excellent communication skills and will liaise with a range of stakeholders including finance and non-finance staff and managers and other internal customers as well as external suppliers and consultants. The Income Management Team make extensive use of the Council's Income Management System, Civica ICON.

**Senior Finance Officer**

The post holder will support the Capital and Projects finance team with the financial management of the Council’s Wholly Owned Housing Investment Company, Nuplace Limited, which has over 600 houses available to let. Responsibilities will include ensuring robust financial controls are maintained and the production of timely management information to senior members of the finance team, company directors and shareholders.

The post holder will additionally support the Councils capital projects team, preparing timely information to Service Delivery managers, completing the year end closedown processes. The post holder will make extensive use of the Councils Financial Accounting System and report to a range of non-financial stakeholders.

**Key Requirements**

**Skills and Experience**

We are looking for someone with:

- Good interpersonal skills to enable effective customer support
- Good communication skills-oral and written
- Technical accounting knowledge
- Prioritise effectively whilst dealing with competing demands
- Ability to consistently achieve deadlines
- Understanding of the concept of value for money
- Good ICT skills for reporting including a good understanding of all systems available and effective use of these

We are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home. Our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working around personal and family commitments. Whilst in the office the post holder will be based at Darby House which is located within the vicinity of Telford Town Centre and has easy access links to both road and rail.

If this role is of interest to you, further details can be found in the Job Description and Person Specification.

We intend to hold interviews in the week commencing 24th November

We are committed to equality and diversity.