The Opportunity
Join our team as a Finance Team Leader!
Salary: £ 39,862 to £42,839 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: Hybrid working at County Hall, Chichester and remotely
Interview date: W/C 15/06/2026
We're looking for a Finance Team Leader to join our Operational Finance team! In this exciting role, you will play a key part in supporting the rollout of our new Finance information system, Oracle. If you have a solid background in Accounts Payable and Purchase to Pay systems, this is a fantastic opportunity to help us transition from SAP to Oracle smoothly.
As our Finance Team Leader, you will be leading a team in Accounts Payable guiding them to achieve their goals while ensuring we deliver excellent, customer-focused service. Your day-to-day activities will include:
- Providing direction and support to individuals and teams, including those working across different disciplines or locations.
- Collecting data from our finance systems to help prepare monitoring and performance reports.
- Helping to develop our new finance payment system processes, which includes training, testing, and implementation.
- Supporting our self-service initiatives by coaching and training on our various corporate payment methods.
- Ensuring compliance with our corporate payment systems by maintaining accurate financial records.
If you're ready to make a real impact and work with a great team, we'd love to hear from you!
What are we looking for?
As our successful Finance Team Leader, you will:
- Be proactive with a can-do attitude, and a focus on personal and professional development.
- Have effective people management skills including performance management skills and the ability to provide direction and support to individuals and teams, including those working across different disciplines or locations.
- Be 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.
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to make the most of your talents.
- Be able to effectively manage conflicting priorities, for yourself and your team, to deliver high quality projects.
- Have an inquisitive and enquiring mind, which will aid continuous improvement and learning.
- Have a strong focus on continuous improvement and a commitment to delivering and ensuring value for money.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Further information
The reference number for this role is CRS01074.
For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Danielle Kyle (Deputy Operational Finance Manager) at [email protected].
For issues or queries regarding your application please contact [email protected].
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.
Job Reference: CRS01074
