Funding and Operations Officer
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2 months contract with a local authority
Summary
- The postholder is responsible for providing governance oversight and operational assurance across designated financial assistance schemes. This includes validating authorising and assuring funding decisions to ensure full compliance with financial regulations audit standards and statutory requirements.
Responsibilities
- Provide governance oversight for financial assistance schemes ensuring compliance transparency and alignment with statutory and funding-body requirements.
- Lead senior review validation and formal authorisation of complex funding decisions and applications recommended for payment.
- Ensure decisions meet financial regulations audit standards and policy frameworks.
- Identify manage and escalate strategic risks including safeguarding fraud indicators operational risks systemic issues and financial irregularities.
- Support the development and implementation of risk-mitigation measures.
Essential Experience Required
- Experience authorising or approving funding decisions or financial transactions within a regulated or audit-controlled environment.
- Experience producing statutory monitoring returns performance reports or detailed datasets for scrutiny.
Essential Qualifications Required
- A relevant Level 4 qualification or equivalent professional experience in funding compliance operational governance or related complex service areas.
Additional Information
- Working hours: 36 hours per week
- Location: Churchill Court 2 Westmoreland Road Bromley Kent BR1 1AS United Kingdom.
- Interviews will be in-person at Bromley Civic Centre.
- Candidates will be required to complete a series of in-tray tasks as part of the interview process.
- We work on a bi-weekly payment schedule.
The role closes on 25th March 2026 apply ASAP.
Required Skills:
The postholder is responsible for providing governance oversight and operational assurance across designated financial assistance schemes. This includes validating authorising and assuring funding decisions to ensure full compliance with financial regulations audit standards and statutory requirements
Required Education:
The postholder is responsible for providing governance oversight and operational assurance across designated financial assistance schemes. This includes validating authorising and assuring funding decisions to ensure full compliance with financial regulations audit standards and statutory requirements
Key Skills
- Six Sigma
- Lean
- Management Experience
- Process Improvement
- Microsoft Outlook
- Analysis Skills
- Warehouse Management System
- Operations Management
- Kaizen
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Retail Management
