Finance Assistant

We are currently seeking a Finance Assistant to join our Financial Services Unit. This role is a great chance for you to expand your skills and experience in the finance field.

The Opportunity

Salary: £25,584 to £25,992 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: County Hall, Chichester and working from home (Hybrid working)

The Financial Services unit supports the County Council and all services in order to help make the best use of available resources and deliver County Strategy objectives and effective services.

In this role, you will provide reliable, efficient and effective flexible support to a team (or across teams) of a high-level administrative nature relating to the delivery of a specialist financial service. You will provide administrative support to a team, handling client queries, maintaining records, and assisting with day-to-day financial processing.

If you are looking for a dynamic role in finance with the opportunity for growth, this could be the perfect fit for you. Join us at WSCC and be part of an exciting team making a real impact in the community.

What are we looking for?

• You will be comfortable working on routine financial processing and related administrative tasks.
• You will have experience working in a customer focussed role, with relevant finance experience and the ability to explain basic financial information.
• You will be dealing with members of the public on the telephone, and will need to demonstrate excellent customer care and communication skills when responding to potentially sensitive financial queries from elderly, frail or disabled individuals, or from those who may be upset or angry.
• You will also need to be able to work on your own initiative, organising your work appropriately and responding to changing priorities to meet agreed deadlines.

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 CRS00912.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Karen Ballantyne (Service Finance Team Manager) 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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