SEN Finance Coordinator Internal Applicants Only
SEN Finance Coordinator Internal Applicants Only
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PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: per annum pay award pending (pro rata for parttime)
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type: Secondment for 12 months
Closing Date: 28th April 2025
Interview Date(s): To be confirmed
Are you an experienced finance professional looking for a new challenge
Do you have a passion for continuous improvement and the delivery of highquality services
About the Role
As the SEN Finance Coordinator you will be responsible for managing the Special Educational Needs (SEN) Payments Finance Function. You will provideoversight governance and leadership to deliver a safe efficient cost effective and customerfocused multidisciplinary function that meets the needs of both internal and external customers.
You will need to effectively integrate resources (people contracts and technology) with performance management processes and practices to ensure the delivery of services which comply with council policies and values national regulations and finance best practice.
Collaborating with colleagues across Strategic Finance Transformation and Children and Family Services you will support a fundamental review of the function to ensure it continues to meet statutory requirements customer needs and supports the delivery of the Councils strategic outcomes. This will include assessing processes technology controls and structure as well as testing and implementing longterm improvements to the delivery of the service.
You may on occasion be required to work outside of normal working hours.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Be educated to degree level or be part CCAB or AAT qualified plus hold an appropriate professional / management qualification or have equivalent management experience.
- Have experience of delivering a financial service through the management of a large team including undertaking performance management supervision and appraisals.
- Have experience of resolving financial problems particularly efficiency with sound workable solutions and of communicating financial system and process information to nonfinance specialists in an easily understandable way both in written form and facetoface.
- Have a broad understanding of the different areas of finance (e.g. transactional and management accounting) finance best practice including financial control and the importance of confidentiality and data security.
- Have experience of identifying and supporting the implementation of improvements in a Finance function including knowledge of how technology such as Power BI Fusion Analytics or a similar reporting tool and Oracle Fusion or a similar ERP solution can improve management information and working practices.
- Have experience of working in cross functional teams developing links between financial and operational information to ensure business objectives and financial objectives are met and of developing effective working relationships with senior and operational managers within service departments other finance professionals and stakeholders.
- Have experience of developing and applying Financial Performance Indicators to provide assurance of good practice through performance management and of developing the effective use of Microsoft Office particularly Excel in the financial management of processes and resources.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Mark Forknall Senior Finance Business Partner
Telephone:
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site. As this is a secondment opportunity please obtain permission from your manager before applying.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2 or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Intern
