[ref. y08860518] Finance Officer - Yate

How you'll make a difference:

You will make a difference as a Finance Officer by supporting the delivery of a range of quality and cost effective financial management and financial support within the children’s department of the council.

What you will be doing:

• We require you to be the key point of contact for budget holders, you will be responsible for the preparation of budget monitoring information. This involves working closely with budget holders, both face and to face and over the telephone and email to ensure up to date information is received.
• It will be your responsibility to ensure prompt follow up on requests that are received from internal/external customers.
• You will use your own initiative, developing and prioritising your work to meet set deadlines. You will also manage your own time to ensure key deadlines are met.
• We require you to be the key point of contact for budget holders, you will be responsible for the preparation of budget monitoring information. This involves working closely with budget holders, both face and to face and over the telephone and email to ensure up to date information is received.
• It will be your responsibility to ensure prompt follow up on requests that are received from internal/external customers.
• You will use your own initiative, developing and prioritising your work to meet set deadlines. You will also manage your own time to ensure key deadlines are met.

What we need from you:

• You must have good numeracy and literacy skills and be familiar with report writing, presentations and IT skills.
• You will have the ability to work with competing demands and deliver to deadlines.
• We require you to be able to work on your own initiative and prioritise your workload effectively.
• Ideally, you would need knowledge of Dynamics 365.

What you need to know:

• This is a part-time role, working 22.2 hours per week. Your salary will be pro-rated to hours worked.
• This is a limited term contract, ending 31st March 2026.
• We are also offering this as an internal secondment opportunity, you should first seek your line managers permission before applying.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road, Yate and working from home.

Interviews will be held on 5th June or 6th June 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 recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
• 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.

• 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!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Finance Officer - Job Description