Finance Assistant Children`s Commissioning

Job description

Job responsibilities

Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for a Finance Assistant to join the Childrens Commissioning Finance Team on a permanent basis.

Join our dedicated team in Children's Commissioning, where your financial expertise will directly contribute to shaping the future of children's services. In this vital role, you will have the unique opportunity to blend your financial acumen with a passion for social impact, ensuring that every decision and investment made supports the wellbeing and development of children in our community.

Be part of a mission-driven organization where your work not only drives economic efficiency but also makes a lasting difference in young lives.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Childrens Commissioning Finance Manager,Manju Mathew.

Contact email: manju.mathew@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

You will provide effective and accurate payment of c£55 million of Childrens Commissioning transactions, ensuring that Providers are accurately paid and agencies invoiced. You will assist with the monitoring of budgets in accordance with Council financial processes, systems and instructions and complete regular integrity checks and reconciliations to ensure that all payments made are correct.

If you are a highly motivated, proactive, organised and innovative finance professional with a proven track record of delivery, apply today!

For more information, please see attached Job description and Person specification.

This is a hybrid role working flexibly from home and New Shire Hall in Huntingdon.

You will have previous experience in finance, including working with finance systems and maintaining accurate financial records. Knowledge of payment systems such as ERP and CONTROCC is an advantage.

You will have strong data accuracy skills, with experience in data entry, reconciliations, and document maintenance and strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

You will have the ability to work independently while maintaining positive, collaborative working relationships with colleagues, other teams, and partners and you will be able to demonstrate strong organisational ability, including prioritising workload, meeting deadlines, managing multiple tasks such as invoice processing, query handling, digital document filing, and record keeping.

You will also be someone with effective interpersonal and customer service skills, with the ability to proactively lead on and resolve provider queries relating to payment, able to liaise with suppliers and internal teams effectively.

You will be reliable, professional and have a respectful approach, demonstrating consistency, accountability, and the ability to be trusted with sensitive financial information and timecritical tasks.

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you dont meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please dont be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire County Council

Address

Cambridge

PE28 4YE

Employer's website

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)