Finance Officer

2 weeks ago


Yate, United Kingdom South Gloucestershire Council Full time

How you'll make a difference:
As a Finance Officer, you will support the delivery of a range of quality and cost-effective financial management services, supporting the income side transaction team.

What you will be doing:

- As a key point of contact for Transport and Project Managers, you will support them with financial administration tasks, ensuring they are completed accurately and to time.
- It will be key for you to be the main contact for budget holders, preparing quarterly budget monitoring information and contributing to the development of revenue and capital budgets.
- As required, you will ensure a prompt follow-up on requests for information from budget holders.
- It will be your responsibility to co-ordinate the recharges to projects, ensuring that these are completed on time to support monthly monitoring.
- Using your own initiative, you will develop and prioritise work, managing your time to ensure key deadlines are met.
- You will support budget holders in the preparation of grant claims and quarterly monitoring reports, ensuring you meet financial reporting requirements.

What we need from you:

- You may hold an Association of Accounting Technicians qualification or be working towards this or have gained equivalent relevant experience working in a similar role.
- It is essential that you have gained knowledge and experience of working in an organisation that delivers a range of quality and cost-effective financial management and support services including the preparation of financial and budget information.
- You need to have strong numeracy and literacy skills and be experienced in report writing, presentations and IT.
- We require you to be able to demonstrate clear and logical thinking in assessing challenges and problem solving.
- Although not essential, you may have knowledge of Microsoft D365.

What you need to know:
**Interviews will be held in person at our offices in Yate on 4**th** September 2025**

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different:

- As part of our benefits package, you will receive **generous annual leave** (pro rata), employee **wellbeing support**and you will have access to a range of **staff discounts**, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine **flexibility**to help them achieve that **work/life balance.**:

- We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference, and we continue to** invest in technology**to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and **celebrate innovation.**:

- We invest in the careers of our people, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our** training and development**offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
- We’re positive and forward thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working work and we’re ambitious about the future.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

**We’re making a difference, be part of it**

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