We are looking to recruit a Finance Assistant to join our friendly Corporate Parenting Finance Team. Are you a highly motivated individual who enjoys working in a financial environment, and are capable of developing professional relationships with all stakeholders? This is an opportunity for the right candidate to become an integral part of the team, ensuring the processing and delivery of effective, timely payments to all our carers.
You will be highly organised with a keen eye for detail, interested in finance and a great communicator. An understanding or experience of working with confidential information in a customer focused environment and working to tight deadlines is crucial. Good communication and team working skills are also essential, with customer service skills being an advantage.
You will be paying invoices, supporting with weekly and fortnightly supplements to young people, carers and suppliers as well as gaining working knowledge of the whole wider team which includes fostering finance. You would be required to gather data, process the relevant financial information as well as accurately recording and following policies
The team is based in the Huntingdon area. The role is a hybrid working role and will include working weekly in the office on required days. Other benefits include flexible work, a comprehensive pension scheme, sick pay and professional development.
For any questions or an informal chat about the role please contact Heidi.Crumpton@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefitsWe value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
What will you be doing?System & invoicing Process:
- Accurate loading of all relevant payments onto the Commitments Records/ spreadsheets and associated systems to ensure that accurate payments are made.
- To ensure that Other Local Authority’s contributions are recorded correctly, and invoices generated in a timely manner.
- Ensure that all financial data is recorded in a consistent and accurate way across all systems and saved in the appropriate SharePoint directories.
- Provide financial statistics to relevant managers as requested in order to comply with CCC regulations.
- Ensure duties are undertaken with due regard to the Council’s financial regulations, national charging guidance, and departmental policies and procedures.
- Ensure all invoices, bills and other charging correspondence sent to other Authorities (and/or their representatives) are accurate, meet quality standards and adhere to agreed processes.
- To ensure all Suppliers/Carers/Young People are set up accurately so that payments are generated and made correctly.
- Ability and willingness to adapt in the way that we work, when it comes to change and implementation of new systems, processes and service demands.
Customer Relations:
- Dealing with and resolving all customer queries including the ceasing of provision.
- To be proactive in dealing with customer queries either around payments made or charges applied.
- Record, investigate and sensitively resolve customer enquiries, referring complex matters to line management for advice or re-allocation as appropriate.
- Ensuring that matters are dealt with in a customer focussed way
Financial Support:
- Assist with monitoring and/or management of budgets in accordance with County Council financial processes, systems and instructions as necessary.
- Ensure that County Council financial processes and systems are complied with.
- Undertake financial support duties as required to support the efficient delivery of services.
- Support workforce agility within the finance team and maintain financial operations. Work collaboratively with colleagues and contribute to the sharing of knowledge within the team in order to enhance learning and build / maintain team resilience.
Debt Management Processes:
• Highlight and investigate issues in relation to debt, providing a resolution where possible.
About youA working knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 and experience of ContrOCC, ERP or other financial software packages would be desirable. However, full in-house training and professional development will be available.
Experience in invoicing, payment-runs and financial knowledge preferred. AAT qualifications (or equivalent) would be an advantage.
We are looking for you to hold at least 5 GCSE’s including Maths and English at grade C and above and to have worked in finance or an office environment.
We have an energetic, bubbly, supportive small team that believes helping each other is Key to better working relationships and a better working environment. Working with others and good communication skills is essential, as well as working independently as this is a hybrid role ( currently attend office on Tuesdays).
If you think you would be a good fit and would like to be part of a team that makes a real difference to providers and service users throughout Cambridgeshire area, then we would welcome your application.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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