Finance Administrator

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:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 25 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 CRS00878.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Daniel Ayling (Interim Team Manager - WSCC Accounts Payable) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and complete the application form. In your application 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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