Business Support Officer

2 weeks ago

Warrington, United Kingdom Warrington Borough Council Full time

**About us**:
The Business Support Team within Children’s Social Care have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced finance/business support assistant. We are offering a permanent part time time Business Support Officer role with an opportunity to assist our Finance Team to deliver a first class service to the teams, colleagues, children, young people and families we support on a daily basis.

**The role**:
Providing a professional, high quality finance/business support service within the Business Support team. This will include support for of a range of different processes and following a variety of procedures. We need you to provide an excellent support service to all our Children's Social Care Team's by assisting the Senior Business Support Officer deliver our finance responsibilities.

There will be work involving preparing and releasing payment runs, preparing and issuing Petty Cash, making purchases and preparing Purchase Orders via our procurement system (SAP). You will work as a key part of the team, using initiative and problem-solving to support the service to achieve its objectives, including seeking out responses to queries/undertaking any ad-hoc tasks/pieces of work that come into the shared inbox which may also include support for other wider business support processes.

You will be part of a small team of similar post-holders but also part of a wider team with other duties that you may have opportunity to be involved in, should you wish to grow and develop your knowledge and skills. Please see the job description for more detail on the role and the person specification to see if your skills and experience match what the role requires.

**Hours of Work**

**Mon**:4 Hours - AM/PM flexible - to be agreed

**Thurs**: 7 Hours - 9:30am - 5:00pm (Unpaid 30 min lunchbreak)

**Fri**:7.5 Hours - 9:00am - 5:00pm (Unpaid 30 min lunchbreak)

**Total**= 18.5 Hours per week

**What's needed?**:
We are looking for someone with the following experience and qualities:

- Good IT skills with experience in a range of software
- Experience of data-inputting
- Experience of cash-handling
- Experience of procurement
- Excellent team-working skills
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise and organise workload despite interruptions
- Excellent communication skills with a confidence to communicate with colleagues and partners at all levels
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Good decision-making skills
- Flexible and able to work under pressure
- Committed to improving outcomes for children & families

**Benefits**:
As well as a competitive salary, working for us means you get:

- 26 days annual holiday - raising to 31 after 5 years of service (pro-rata)
- Access to our attractive and competitive benefits package
- Access to our Health & Wellbeing Programme
- Flexible working

**Key Dates & Further Information**:
Interviews will be January 2025

The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

Warrington Borough Council is a Disability Confident employer

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