The Opportunity
Salary: £32,597 to £35,412 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time 37 hours per week
Location County Hall, Chichester with hybrid working opportunities
Interview date: Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th August
As a Finance and Performance Officer you will, work within the Operational Finance team to provide a reliable and efficient support to a team or multiple teams with high level administrative tasks.
This will include handling client queries, providing standard information and guidance, maintaining records, producing routine correspondence, and supporting daily processing in line with established procedures.
What you will bring to the role:
To be successful in this role you will need to be:
- Proactive with a can-do attitude, focused on personal and professional development.
- Experience of collaborating with stakeholders to provide technical, financial, budgetary and performance management information.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience of managing conflicting priorities to deliver high-quality projects.
- Have a strong focus on continuous improvement and a commitment to value for money.
What are we looking for?
- Excellent written skills to clearly present complex financial and performance data for managers and contribute to reports.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills to engage with clients, build relationships, to explain technical information and budgets clearly.
- Strong technical, analytical, and numeracy skills to manage large, complex datasets and budgets.
- Experience of supervising teams and have the ability to guide, support, and allocate work.
- Adaptable to change, with the ability to learn new systems and improve working methods.
- Strong organisation skills, able to plan work over the medium term, coordinating activities to meet deadlines.
- Competent in using MS Excel and experience with Oracle Fusion or similar systems for accounting and performance management, capable of performing complex financial calculations.
- Strong IT skills able to carry out routine tasks, including managing emails, word processing, and creating charts or graphs.
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 a 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 CRS01115.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Daniel Ayling Purchasing Team Manager at [email protected]
For issues or queries regarding your application please contact [email protected].
Internal candidates wishing to apply for this role will be considered for a secondment position. Please can you therefore discuss and agree this with your manager before applying for this position.
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.
