Finance Assistant

How you'll make a difference:

As a Finance Assistant, you will provide a comprehensive financial and data processing service to the Children's Finance Team. The team provide a range of strategic advice and operational financial support services to council departments.

What you will be doing:

• You will be responsible for maintaining and updating information systems and databases to ensure that service transactions are completed accurately.
• Daily, you will provide advice and respond to queries from customers, ensuring they receive appropriate guidance about policies, procedures and processes whilst maintaining an effective working relationship.
• It will be key for you to undertake a range of administrative tasks and work on varied projects including carrying out research, writing reports, presenting information and ensuring records are accurate which will help to inform decision making.

What we need from you:

• You will have relevant knowledge and experience of working in an organisation that delivers a range of financial and data processing services, including paying and raising invoices and using electronic systems.
• We require you to have a minimum of 3 GCSEs including English and maths or an equivalent qualification.
• You need to have the ability to analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources to inform judgements and make decisions.
• Good interpersonal skills are essential as you will need to communicate with a diverse range of people.
• You will have a good understanding and experience of IT within a finance setting.
• Ideally, you will have knowledge of Dynamics 365.

What you need to know:

• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate and working from home.

Interviews will be held on 9th 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 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 Assistant - Job Description