This is an excellent role to provide you with an exciting opportunity to develop your skills in the finance world.
The Opportunity
Salary: £24,790 to £25,183 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week.
Location: Based at County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working from home
Interview date: 12, 13 and 16 December 2024
As a Finance Administrator, you will provide responsive, accurate financial administration within the Operational Finance Team, ensuring that the data held on core accounting systems is correct and maintained in a timely manner.
You will be based in one of the Operational Finance teams and key duties include financial processing, reconciliations and the maintenance of core financial systems.
You will be able to provide specialist financial administrative support to the team, working independently to manage small scale specialist administration functions.
You will be responsible for the accurate and timely processing of payments, and carrying out any other accounting procedures as required. You will make every effort to prioritise business and departmental objectives, thereby protecting the Company’s financial interests and maximising profitability.
What are we looking for?
We are seeking a candidate with experience working in a customer focused role, with relevant financial management experience and the ability to explain basic financial or performance management information.
You will be comfortable working on routine financial / performance management processing and related administrative tasks for periods at a time.
The job could also involve occasional exposure to disagreeable or challenging behaviour when answering telephone queries, therefore a professional, customer centred attributes are key to this role.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
1. an excellent
2. generous holiday entitlement of 25 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
3. a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
4. maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
5. volunteering opportunities
6. training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
7. a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
8. health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans