Finance Officer

The Opportunity

Salary: £31,586 to £34,314 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: Hybrid working, based at County Hall, Chichester and working from home

Interview date: Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 December 2024

Join our fantastic Financial Control Team in Corporate Finance! In this role, you will dive into a mix of exciting responsibilities, from financial accounting to essential controls and statutory returns.

You will play a crucial part in a number of critical account reconciliations, requiring effective communication with internal and external stakeholders. Plus, you will play a key part supporting the external audit of the accounts, so strong communication and scrutiny skills are a must!

You will also have an important role supporting capital accounting processes, including the maintenance of property and leasing registers and the completion of statutory returns. And you will support asset acquisitions through the facilitation of 'lease or buy' appraisals.

What are we looking for?

• Able to demonstrate the relevant skills and experience, with great communication and interpersonal skills to make the most of your talent.
• Be proactive with a can-do attitude, and a focus on personal and professional development.
• A good team player, keen and able to work collaboratively with stakeholders, partners and third-party suppliers to achieve outcomes within a complex operating environment.
• You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to make the most of your talents.

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:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• 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)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00877.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Sean McEwan (Finance Manager - Financial Control) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.

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