About the job Salary: £29,093 - £31,586 a year pro rata Hours per week: 18.5 Contract type: Permanent In this role, you'll be responsible for a wide range of administrative tasks, with a focus on financial processes, budgets, and accounts. Your day-to-day work will include supervising and motivating team members, managing procurement, and maintaining systems to ensure everything runs smoothly. You'll also collaborate in a multi-agency environment, contributing to services aimed at supporting children, families, and communities. Your role will be varied and dynamic, combining high-level administrative tasks with the opportunity to directly influence the efficiency and impact of the team. From risk assessments to health and safety, your expertise will help shape a safe, productive, and inclusive environment. Please note this role does not attract sponsorship. About you You bring solid experience in administrative work, particularly in financial settings, and have a proven ability to work with budgets and accounts. Your strong leadership skills enable you to guide, mentor, and motivate your team, meeting deadlines and maintaining a high standard of work. You're skilled with databases and spreadsheets and have a clear understanding of monitoring systems. Communication is one of your strengths, and you're comfortable engaging with a diverse range of people, always with tact and diplomacy. Your knowledge of working within multi-agency frameworks, as well as your understanding of disability and its impact on children and families, makes you uniquely equipped for this role. You're a problem solver with high-level numeracy skills, a commitment to equality, and the ability to recognise and address discrimination. With an NVQ Level 3 in a finance-related field or equivalent experience, and the flexibility to adapt to changing needs, you're ready to take on new challenges. This is a public facing role so you'll need to show off your fluency in speaking and writing English About us Our ambitious Luton 2040 Vision - that no-one in Luton will have to live in poverty - is at the heart of everything we do. We recognise that our people are remarkable, talented, committed and passionate about serving our residents. The people of Luton depend heavily on this council - and that means our workforce Are you ready to realise the remarkable and help us deliver our vision? Application Process Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare all unspent cautions and convictions; and also any adult cautions (simple or conditional), and spent convictions that are not protected as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020). A person's criminal record will not in itself prevent a person from being appointed to this post. Applicants will not be refused posts because of offences which are not relevant to, and do not place them at or make them a risk in, the role for which they are applying. However in the event of the employment being taken up, any failure to disclose such offence, as detailed above, will result in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority. Benefits We offer a range of excellent staff benefits which include: - From 25 to 32 days' annual leave: linked to length of service and grade - Buying annual leave scheme: buy up to 20 days additional annual leave - Career Pathways: step up in your career or move into a specialist area - Pension scheme: with generous employer contributions of up to 20.2 per cent (at July 2023) and 3x salary death in service grant - Generous relocation package: up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility) - Employee Assistance Programme: a free, 24/7 confidential counselling and wellbeing support service available to all employees, their partner or spouse and dependent children over 16 still living at home - Work/life balance: flexible working options including working from home where possible. We welcome requests for flexible working arrangements including part-time hours and alternative working patterns - Training and support: unlimited access to development courses, mentoring and support and clear career pathways - Staff offers: includes discounts on your MOT, gym and fitness, restaurants and salons - Arriva Travel Club: great value savings on local bus travel