This is an excellent role to provide you with an exciting opportunity to develop your skills in the finance world and those wishing to pursue a career in Finance.
The Opportunity
Salary: £24,790 to £25,183 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working
Interview date: w/c 10 March
Corporate Finance provides key assurance for the Council and stewardship of public monies helping to ensure proper financial administration. As the Finance Assistant, you will provide responsive, accurate financial administration within the Chief Accountants Team, ensuring that the data held on core accounting systems is correct and maintained in a timely manner.
You will be based in the Income and Banking Team and key duties include income processing, reconciliations and the maintenance of core financial systems.
Our team has regular communications with members of the public, West Sussex schools, the Councils bank, and internal departments. You should have experience working in a customer focussed role, enjoy working as part of a team but also be self-motivated.
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?
1. You will have experience working in a customer focussed role, with relevant financial management experience and the ability to explain basic financial or performance management information.
2. You will be comfortable working on routine financial / performance management processing and related administrative tasks for periods at a time.
3. The job could also involve occasional exposure to disagreeable or unpleasant people-related behaviour when answering telephone queries.
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:
4. an excellent
5. generous holiday entitlement of 25 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
6. a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
7. maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
8. volunteering opportunities
9. training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
10. 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)
11. health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans