Business Support Officer - Finance Internal Applicants Only
Business Support Officer - Finance Internal Applicants Only
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PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Remote Working/County Hall Glenfield Leicestershire. LE3 8RF
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: per annum
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 30th April 2025
Interview Date(s): 8th May 2025
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a wellorganised and resilient individual to join the Children and Family Services Business Support Team as a Business Support Officer Finance. As a member of Children and Family Services they will be required to ensure the development of high quality financial and administrative support and systems.
The successful candidate will take daytoday responsibility for specific Children and Family Services budgets including budget preparation and monitoring of income and expenditure involving collection inputting sorting and extracting financial information and all budgetary control across the Service. This includes the provision of financial information to support budget monitoring arrangement estimate and strategic preparation strategic decision making and end of year closing of accounts. This will be achieved through making appropriate use of LCC financial systems including the use of Excel spreadsheets and other county council software systems ensuring that information required for auditing purposes can be collected collated and analysed efficiently and effectively. There will be a requirement to produce and present reports as necessary to Senior staff offering advice on C&FS policies and strategy as necessaryensuring that local policies and practices are in line with County Council policies and procedures.
Also the successful candidate will ensure that appropriate levels of support for staff are in place including prioritisation and organisation of workloads and ensuring appropriate levels of cover on a daily basis. They will line manage staff including supervision APR and APR review meetings as well as implementing and undertaking other line management responsibilities such as absence management. They will organise develop and provide training for staff in their respective areas as deemed necessary developing and providing guidance notes and documentation as necessary including contributing to the staff induction process.
The role is part of the wider Business Support Service and as such an important part of this role is to provide back up to colleagues across service areas and to assist in handling urgent work on a day to day basis.
What we offer:
- Guaranteed contracted hours
- Opportunities to progress within a large public sector organisation.
- Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Generous annual leave entitlement.
- Access to staff wellbeing and counselling service.
- Access to an employee discount scheme providing a whole host of retail discount including your supermarket weekly shop and gym membership!
- Work for an organisation which 95 of our staff say is a good employer.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
- Recognised Academic Qualifications e.g. GCSE A Levels Vocational Quals Professional/Further Education Quals in relevant area and training in the use of ICT applications Microsoft Word Excel Publisher PowerPoint Access etc.
- Experience of working in staff development and delivery of training.
- Previous experience of collection and collation of data performing calculations and writing reports.
- Experience of working to strict timescales and meeting deadlines.
- Proven experience of managing resources and resolving administrative problems.
- Experience of financial administration and budgets including monitoring control and experience in the use of electronic purchasing systems and in the handling and recording of cash.
- Ability to work on own initiative and to take personal responsibility for seeing through issues with care and concern for the accuracy of information
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:
Heather Kirby Business Services Manager
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.
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:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Intern
