Business Finance Co-ordinator Internal Applicants Only
Business Finance Co-ordinator Internal Applicants Only
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Job Description
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: 25th April 2025
Interview Date(s): 1st 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 and Finance Coordinator. 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 support Service Managers in the preparation and management of the budgets resource and associated data. This will include checking and investigating detail consolidation monitoring and investigation of will provide pupil level data and social care information and analysis to inform and support financial forecasting business initiatives and strategy including theevaluation of financial will also undertake management of pupil related and social care data to ensure that the financial resource need of Services is identified. Producing reports and monthly monitoring statements to service managers/Heads of Service on a timely basis ensuring will ensure that financial records are accurately and regularly maintained to comply with financial regulations.
The successful candidate will work closely with managers to develop agreed business support service processes reflecting changing needs and the budget envelope and to monitor performance to ensure business support teams effectively and efficiently support the functions within their remit.
It is vital to the future of the department that the post holder is flexible in taking on additional tasks willing to offer help to employees and treats cooperation and support for colleagues as a top priority.
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:
- Degree level qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent level of relevant experience in a business and or financial support services setting OR demonstrable experience identified within the bullet points below.
- Proven management experience in a relevant setting including responsibility for staffing and financial resources and to be able to organise own work and lead and manage the work of others in different centres across the area.
- Experience of developing a culture of continuous improvement being able to deliver information advice and guidance about learning and work practices.
- Experience of interpreting and analysing data in order to improve services including redacting information and knowledge around the operation of financial and budgetary systems.
- Ability to negotiate with a wide range of external agencies and partners.
- To be able to work under pressure within short deadlines having a flexible and responsive attitude.
- Excellent Customer Care practices.
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.
Employment Type
Intern
